I have updated Office97 to SP-2 and VFP 6 to SP3. Somewhere along the line I have lost the ablility of Word and Excel to recognize a .dbf. They don't seem to care whether the .dbf is saved in 2x format or VFP format. I have also lost the FoxPro file option in the Open Data Source dialog in Word.

I gather that somewhere along the line Microsoft .dbf ODBC support from odbcjt32.dll to vfpodbc.dll. I have an example downloaded from Microsoft that shows me how to attach a FoxPro table to an Word document in VFP code, but my users need to be able to attach a FoxPro table to a Word document in the Word user interface and right now the Word user interface has no clue what a FoxPro dbf is. Can someone tell me how to fix the Open Data Source dialog so that it can attach a VFP dbf to a document? I imagine it involves a registry entry, but I have no idea where to start.

TIA

:-) Pamela