Between Word 7 and Word 8 MS changed from WordBasic to VBA to standardize their Office products (that is _my_ interpretation). While incredibly annoying :-) it was necessary (IMO). It wasn't something _done_ to us (the VFP) community.

What's nice is that word.basic is still even supported.

>By trial an error, I noticed that there is a distinct difference between creating the object as
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>=createobject('word.basic')
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>and
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>=createobject('word.application')