>>Has anybody done this?
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>>It seams like a good idea without requiring the user to have Word.
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>Since Wordpad is available for Win9x and WinNT, and is fairly well behaved, why not rely on that? There's even a default association between WordPad and the .DOC file type, so ShellExecute() will launch Word if it's available, or WordPad if it isn't; the full capabilities, including printing and the like are available, and if you want to use a memo file rather than a General field to store the data, you can use STRTOFILE() to move a memo field contents to a temp file for editing, and FILETOSTR() to move it back in afterwards.

And, it's OLE Enabled.