>>>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
>Ok. Thanks. We'll check that out.
>
>Mike Meer has said that the main difference between the two systems is that one has IE 4 ( the one that works ) and one has IE 3 ( the one that doesn't ). If that's true, I guess it's just a matter of determining which DLL needs to be upgraded. Other than searching through the MSDN library, does anybody have an idea which DLL would fix that problem.


Check the OLEAUT32.OCX on each machine???