Yes David,
OTOH in long operations if I see what it's doing I "feel" it runs faster:) I prefer word.basic whereever possible for its compatibility with both versions:)
Cetin
>Cetin,
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>I found that Word runs VBA code about 4 times faster if it's not visible whiel the code is running.
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>>I don't think this approach would be faster than using ODBC though (word operations are unfortunately slow whether you use wordbasic or VBA commands-problem we are accustomed to speed with VFP).