AFAIK you're wrong, Craig's solution does not use Word at all. I haven't used it myself, but I have seen it demonstrated more than once. From what I have heard it's fast, easy to use and very flexible.

>Thomas and Dragan solutions work
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>However both leads to Ms Word words list and is slow
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>I Inserted an OLE control in my form and can see the Microsoft Word Windows inside and it works fine
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>All that I need now is to pass the Microsoft Word OLE I typed to a variable and also from a variable to
>Microsoft Word OLE
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>Does anybody know if this is possible ?
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>Moises