>I get the word doc I want
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>I extract the contents to a variable
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>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?
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If you actually want the formatted Word document, you do this via Automation: open the document in Word and poke the data you want into it and then print it.

Here's one way to do it: http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Articles/Accessing%20Word%20Bookmarks%20through%20Automation.PDF

The last major section of this paper shows another: http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Conference%20Sessions/Automating%20Microsoft%20Word.pdf

Tamar