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

John, Cetin...thanks for the help, it works like a charm.

My only other question is..where can I go to learn some of this syntax stuff for launching other apps from VFP? Suppose, for example, I now need to do some work with Excel.

TIA