Thanx anyway Edward. As always, your input is greatly appreciated.

I have now called MS and they do NOT think that there is a VFP98 .DBF converter for Office97. How is that for bizare! They are going to check into it and get back to me. If I find out something interesting I will check pass it along.

Good day!

>Ian,
>I did not say that it can't be done. I just asked to try it to make sure that you did not push wrong option within Word.
>Have a good night.
>
>>This is unacceptable to my client. They want typical users with only Office 97 and access to the VFP6 databases/tables, to be able to access the data. I am sure it can be done.
>>
>>
>>>Firstly, COPY TO ... TYPE FOX2x and try it.
>>>
>>>>As indicated in the initial post, all the ODBC drivers from the VS6 CD and the Office97 CD are installed.
>>>>
>>>>Ideas???
>>>>
>>>>>Obviously, it lacks VFP driver. You may either install it, or convert recordset to Fox2x (copy to ... type fox2x) on fly as part of your mailmerge program.
>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanx, but the problem is nothing so sophisicated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>My client wants to be able to generate dozens of different form letters via MS Office97 using VFP data but as mentioned, I get CAN NOT OPEN DATA when attempting to open the table in Word (via, TOOLS, MAIL MERGE, FORM LETTERS, GET DATA, OPEN DATA, XXX.DBF).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This should be easily doable. What am I missing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Ideas???
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Ian,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Why not use OLE automation trough VFP ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>or if you do not want to get to all this trouble,
>>>>>>>you can always use the 'copy to xxx type xls' in VFP.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>HTH
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Pascal