Ahhh. That's a whole 'nother twist! In that case, check out GETOBJECT() in the help :-)

>Works great! But here's a twist: change external program to WORD; what if a document is already open in WORD, and I want to open another document in the same instance of WORD (if I execute the code now, WORD will open again) No big deal, guess I could just have VFP check to see if WORD is already open, and close it 1st if it is open, then issue the run command Comments? Thanks.