>I have a system that uses Generals and Word all over the place without error (perhaps I'm lucky). But all of the General fields are in views.......
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>There are a lot of reasons you could be having these problems. Code, buffering, environmental settings, goofiness on the part of VFP....I think that a lot more has to be known about the environment before anyone can help you concretely.
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John,

Are you doing editing of these documents, or are they chiefly for viewing?

In our environment, these documents are being edited with in-place activation in an olebound control in a form, but we're about to move to out-of-place activation due to a now known bug with word 97 and 2000 when used via an olebound control in vfp (yes, they even used the code from my sample I sent them in the KB article without mentioning me...).

Are your word docs being used with in-place or out-of-place activation? What kind of form buffering and cursor buffering are you using with your view?

tia for your kind assistance,

regards,

JE