>As a follow-up to my own follow-up, the Word page-size problem can be circumvented by displaying the icon for the file rather then the (clipped or otherwise) contents...which leads to the question: how can I force the display of a bound OLE control to be iconic (programmatically)?

Hi,

If you have found an answer to this question I am very interested to find out how this is done. I did not find a way to do it myself...