Glad the paper's helping you. You might also be interested in the book Della Martin and I wrote on automating Office from VFP: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/autofox.htm

For this problem, as I said, the Line object isn't what you think it is, and it's not relevant. Take a look at the LineSpacing property of the Paragraph object.

Tamar

>btw tamar - i am going through your article as we speak - nicely done - thanks - k
>could this be related to a #define .... i wonder - i have been trying to solve it through loSelection.
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>http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Materials/AutomatingWord.html
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>>>I am try to get vfp to print up some form letters using mail merge - i've go this far but can't seem to change the line spacing when the document opens in Word - default is 1 line - i would like it set to 'nospace' so the signature will appear uninterrupted.
>>>
>>>i took a guess at the code - checked some sources but can't seem to find any reference to this feature. any ideas??
>>>
>>>(Apologies that i cannot credit the pro who got me this far - this code has little to do with me.) many thanks k
>>>
>>>

>>>#DEFINE wdToggle 9999998
>>>LOCAL loWord, loSelection, loDocument
>>>loWord = CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")
>>>loWord.Visible = .T.
>>>loDocument = loWord.Documents.Add()
>>>loSelection = loWord.Selection
>>>loSelection.Font.Name= "CALIBRI"
>>>loSelection.Font.Size= "10.5"
>>>
>>>loSelection.line.nospace  &&& XXX does not work
>>>
>>>_cliptext=FILETOSTR("temp.txt")
>>>loSelection.paste()
>>>

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>>The Word Line object isn't what you think it is. The line spacing you're talking about is related to the Paragraph object. Check out Paragraph.LineSpacing.
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>>Tamar