>Thanks for the response Tamar, I appreciate it's been a while.
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>Must be some change with Excel as well, because running your code unchanged generates the same result ...
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>Maybe someone else is successfully merging into Word 2010 with Windows 10 & VFP 9 SP 2 ...

Using csv, not dbf... that's what I've seen working. I was called to fix other things, but merge with csv works. The support for dbfs was silently dropped years ago.