Thanks for the info, George! I am not familiar with ShellExecute() - I assume it is a call to something in the Win32 api: does this allow you to run an EXE with its command line - like the VFP's RUN command?

>>Hi Dave!
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>>I would assume so (and its free! < g >). I don't think that WordPad has an OLE Automation interface, but it might have a DDE Print Verb that could be taken advantage of.
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>>>Rick,
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>>>Can't Wordpad be used to print too? Since that ships with Win95 everyone can install it.
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>>>>Another approach is to write out your RTF to a file and use OLE automation to get Microsoft Word to open and print it for you.
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>Hi Rick,
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>Actually, I don't think it has either. However, using ShellExecute() you could use whatever application is associated with the RTF format to print the file.
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>hth,