We also do this kind of thing with WordPerfect, but I do it through DDE automation. Basically, I do a search and replace to replace codes in the Word Perfect document (Like [NowDate] and [ClientName]) with data from my VFP table. There are a bunch of DDE demo programs around. I'm sure Word will work similarly. I avoided the mailmerge method because I like to keep temporary files out of our system as much as possible, and didn't want to worry about where to put them and when it was safe to overwrite them. >I need an easy way to allow users to create, edit and print form letters from a VFP3 application. Here are a few of the features that I would like to include: >1. Create/edit form letters in Word. >2. An easy way for the user to insert fields that will be replaced with VFP data (add my own menu to Word listing available fields) >3. Print a form letter that was created earlier without seeing Word. >4. Option to merge data with form letter then edit/view before printing. > >Any ideas (even better, samples)? > >Thanks, >Shane