I haven't had much luck with VFP 3 and WP 8 with OLE. I use DDE and I haven't had any significant problems.

>Hi there,
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>Has anyone linked VFP5 to WordPerfect 8?
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>I have an application that talks to Word quite happily and I was starting to set it up with WordPerfect however as soon as I do anything after the CreateObject Visual FoxPro 5.0a crashes. Even the simplest code falls over eg
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> local WP
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> WP = CreateObject("WordPerfect.PerfectScript")
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> WP.Type ("Hello There")
> WP.Quit
> WP = ""
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>This works fine in Visual Basic what am I missing?
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>TIA
>Jeremy