Hi Judy ---

Which version of Word? If Word97 or better, it's VBA and you'll find help on it in Word Help...if it's before, it's Word Basic and there also should be help in Word....there are several white papers at microsoft.com that should help you with Word Basic.



>Please, I'm looking for the syntax in VFP6.0 to open Word and a file in Word. I've tried:
> oleObj = CREATEOBJECT("WORD.APPLICATION") this give an error
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> oleObj = CREATEOBJECT("WORD.BASIC") this does not give an error
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> oleobj.documents.open filename:="c:\test.doc" (an existing doc)
> this gives an error
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>I've hunted through the documentation and can't find a sample. Please point me in the right direction. Thanks
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>judy scofield