Thank you Cetin. Although I am quite a novice at this, I believe I understand your code :-) I will recreate it myself to 'see it in action'. Since my last message, I've installed Visual Studio 6.0 (professional Edition) and I have Word 2000. Things seem to be running smoother. I was able to open my template file, do a mailmerge and then do a FileSaveAs and create a new document with a 'product-specific' name. Now, how would I save this newly created document as 'Read Only'. I don't want the users to change it. (P.S. Thank you Erik, Barbara and David for responding.)


>>Trying to automate that if a particular document isn't found, get the template and do a FileSaveAs and create it. Using oword.createobject("Word.Application"), and can open the file (Documents.open) but there's no SaveAs there. Used the Object Browser and found under "Document" a SaveAs, but can't get it to work. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Really need to know how to change directories, FileSaveAs and run macros. Can Someone help? (God Bless whoever responds!)
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Mary,
>SaveAs method applies to Document object. Below sample code works with w97 and up and any version VFP :

PUBLIC oWord
>
>*** set the LOCALEID to English
>nlLocaleId=sys(3004)	&& Save local id
>=sys(3006,1033)		&& We will be sending instructions in English
>USE customer		&& test table
>Application.datatoclip()
>WAIT window nowait "Creating Word Document..."
>
>oWord=createobject("word.application")	&& Create word object
>WITH oWord
>  .documents.add        	&& New file, default template
>  .Selection.Paste
>  .Selection.Goto(-1,,,"\StartOfDoc")
>  #DEFINE wdDialogEditReplace 117
>  WITH .dialogs(wdDialogEditReplace)
>    .Find = "Owner"
>    .Replace = "Çetin"
>    .MatchCase = .f.
>    .ReplaceAll = .t.
>    .Execute
>  ENDWITH
>  .ActiveDocument.SaveAs("c:\temp\test.doc")
>  .ActiveDocument.Close(-1)
>  .Quit
>ENDWITH
>WAIT clear

Cetin