John,

Thanks for the idea about sections I'll have to check it out.

I don't want to provide editing from the VFP side. I believe in letting a word processor to word processing. If I had the time I could probably use a form over in Word to control the structure of the document, all I'm looking for though is a simple clause picklist function

>The advantage is consistancy of interface. If you're gonna run a VFP front-end to index or store the passages, then you're gonna want a clean means of displaying and/or simple editing those passages. You could OLE Bound it, but it'd be much easier to control using RTF control.
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>Then again, it may be possible to do this entire app in Word itself, using ADO/VBA to do a background interface to a simple Jet database.