>>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

thanks