Jill,

>Oh, BTW, the client is using WorPerfect, of course, so am I wrong to assume that I can do Something like:
>
>oWP = createobject( "Wordperfect.application" )

I have no idea if WP is an automation client. Certainly the DOS version isn't, some of the later Windows versions might be. You can do a search on WordPerfect here, I know there have been threads on the topic in the recent past.