>Glad to help, Rick. In addition to what I mentioned before, here are a couple of MS KB articles on the subject of printers and their settings that might be of intererst: Q140285 "HOWTO: Modify Printer Settings by Using SetPrinter", and Q157629 "HOWTO: Change the Default Source of Printer Programmatically". The former is in Windows Development, the later in the FoxPro area.

Good references, thanks again George. BTW, Q157629 refers to Q133163 (VFP - "HOWTO: Control Printer Attributes for a Report at Run Time") which describes how to do this kind of thing when the report is coming straight out of VFP. So I'm thinking: if I send a null report from VFP to set duplex, followed immediately by the Word document, the duplex mode should persist, right? I need to go to the client's site to try it so I won't know for sure until later today. It's worth a shot, anyway.