>>Why would you want to use Word Viewer on a machine where Word is installed?
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>because some of our clients don't have ms word. i'm found out that the following code works as long as I ship them the wordviewer.exe and it's DLL's.
>run /n wordview.exe mydoc.doc.
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>I appreciate your input though Erik

That's exactly what the code that I gave you does, and it has no reliance on path. It also gives you the benefit of launching word if it's available.