>I get the word doc I want
>
>I extract the contents to a variable
>
>I print a report using names from a dbf and the variable created above - except that Filetostr doesn;t return the contents of a word doc - what should I do?
>
>

>filja=GETFILE()
>fred=FILETOSTR("&filja")
> 
>pcText = fred
>SELECT clients
>scan
>replace sel with 1 
>ENDSCAN
>GO top 
> 
>REPORT FORM clients.frx TO PRINTER FOR TRIM(clients.sel)=1
> 
>SET PRINTER off
>SET PRINTER to
>

First of all, don't use & when you don't have to. E.g.

lcFileName = getfile()
if not empty(lcFileName)
   lcFileContent = filetostr(lcFileName)
endif