>anybody with knowledge of bringing up Microsoft Word VIEWER through VFP, please share your knowledge with me. I would greatly appreciated.
>
>thanks.

If the Word viewer is already installed and registered as the default viewer for the .doc file class, you should be able to launch it with:

DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN Shell32.dll LONG, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, LONG

=ShellExecute(0,"Open","MyWordDoc.doc","","",0)