>experimenting with calling up a Word document from
>a form. have a general field with an inserted object
>(word document in it). This works ok, but word comes
>up minimized. Also, where or how do I add the code
>to run word macros on the document that is opened.
>
>experimented with a command button to use
>createobject("word.basic") and then
>the .FileOpen("file") I hear disk activity as if
>it's doing it, but i never see Word or the file I
>want. Which is the best way to do it?
>
>in 2.6 I used DDE commands which worked well.(?)

One vote for OLE. Its much easier to deal with Word as on object. You could then copy macros out of VB and implement them in a wrapper class to do your word processing.