>These are the steps we used.
>
>OW=CREATEOBJECT("WORD.APPLICATION")
>OW.DOCUMENTS.ADD
>OW.SELECTION.TYPETEXT( "ABCDE" )
>
>This last line gives us the Ole - type mismatch error.
>This works fine on our machines but crashes at our client site.
>
>Does this sound like a version or service pack issue? Any help you can give us in regards to this problem would be greatly appreciated.

I remember early Word 97 had OLE problems with VFP. There have been 2 service releases since then. It might also be wise to check that VFP is the SP3 version.

José