Ken,

Can you store the time stamp of the file at the time of creation and compare that to the final time stamp? Or if you're creating but not saving just check to see if the file exists on the disk with file()?

HTH
Barbara

>Ok,
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>Here is what I want to happen
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>User clicks button, word opens - doc is created using data from current record - formatted, etc.
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>So far - fine - I'm getting a good grasp on Word automation and can do the above with no problem. Now .. here is the tricky part.
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>if user saves Word doc IN WORD - I would like VFP to somehow "know" this and do an APPEND GENERAL LINK into the table. If they close Word doc without saving, then of course, nothing happens in VFP.
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>ideas?
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>TIA,
>Ken