Juan,

Are you disposing of the Word objects properly between attempts? ie:

if ( IsObject( this.moWord ) )
   this.moWord.Quit() && so Word unloads from memory
   this.moWord = .null. && get rid of VFP object
endif

If you bring up the tasklist are you seeing multiple word instances hanging around?

>David, I am getting to the point that I believe it is an OS problem.
>
>I just downloaded and implemented VS6 SP1 Core download which claims to fix binary compatibility bugs with certain runtime redistributable files.
>
>Stills the problem persists. What is funny about this David, is that after rebooting upon completion of the SP. I tried pasting the 5 lines of code onto the command box, highlighted the code, right clicked and executed the code. It work fine! Tried it again thereafter and it fails miserably!