Thank you,
Sorry for breaking in on the thread. I did find some stuff in the archives.
Again tahnks,
Robert
>HI, Robert.
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>Sounds like you might want to have started a new thread, since David was (it seems to me) replying to this thread's topic of mailmerging.
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>For your situation, there have a lot of discussions on this topic. Cetin-among others- has posted lots of example code, so you might want to search the archives. Also, when you install Office, you have a choice of installing the VBA help files for the different Offices apps. I've found them to helpful--the only problem is that some of the VBA commands (I'm talking Word 8) in the help don't work in VFP 5.0, but they do (?) in 6.0.
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>Another good tool, is to record a macro in Word to do a task--like print a doc--and then view the code for it...
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>>Thank you very much. But not exactly what I am looking for.
>>I want to:
>>1. Be in Foxpro.
>>2. Startup a user application that opens a database and allows the user to point to a record.
>>3. Then on the press of a button. A Word document is created, some text and data from the database record is formated on the document, then the document is printed.
>>4. I can and have done this fairly easily using Excel. I can't find an example of this using Word.
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