try the following:

http://www.computer-consulting.com/vfptips.htm

http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/9834/mainfram.htm

http://home.att.net/~john.harvey/vfpstuff.htm

>I am trying my best but I can't seem to get VFP 6.0 to start MS Word, retrieve a word doc and run a mail merge. My main problem is I can't seem to find any really good samples of VFP code that does stuff like this. I have tried the Word help, VFP help and VBA help. There must be a good reference or set of samples somewhere.
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>Many thanks in advance.