Hiya David ---

My VBA help in Word is not being nice to me so I can't test this, but you can put Section breaks (continuous) into a document that are transparent when printing, et al. There are fields in Word that allow you to get section number, et al. It would seem to me that these sections and the contents thereof would be accessible through Automation.

If so, you could bring the sections over to a VFP RTF control (general field, maybe?) and let them edit, bold, underline or whatever to their hearts content.
Then, through Automation again, you could create a new document with the sections they want.

>I've got a client that wants to create contract clauses in Word. What I want to be able to do from VFP is read the .doc file and give them a picklist of all the clauses that are found in the file, let them select the ones they want and then stuff the actual clause data into the contract.doc file the VFP app is creating. For example:
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>Scaffolding:
>This is the clause about scaffolding...
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>Cleanup:
>This is the clause about cleanup...
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>So the VFP picklist would contain Scaffolding and Cleanup.
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>How can I structure the the clauses.doc file so it's easy to get at from VFP and easy for them to create new clauses. Each clause on a separate page? use bookmarks? use a particular styles for the name and clause? something else????