>We are looking for recommendations on an up-to-date relatively high level Book\CD\Combination to use as a resource for ActiveX\OLE\COM. We can do things like call specific Excel worksheets and handle Word Docs from within VFP, but we need to be able to step it up a notch.

Hmmm... no answers in over 1 week. You could try looking in a VB book. What sort of things were you want to learn?