Whoops. Typo. Thanks, Cetin..you are correct Documents not Document.

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>>Try this (might need some small changes) (for Word97)
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>>oWord=CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")
>>oWord.Document.Open("Filename",,.T.)
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>>The third parameter is ReadOnly. Now VB help shows it as a variant so .T. may not work....
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>AFAIK .t. and 1 works :) Just I think it would be "oWord.Documents.Open" not sure.
>Cetin