Thans for your help.
Erin, that gives me plenty of food for thought which I'll have a go at.

Regards,

Gerard




>The following is a quick way to merge a document from VFP:
>
>
>public goWordApp
>goWordApp = createobject("Word.Application")
>goWordApp.documents.open("Your Merge Doc")
>gowordapp.activedocument.mailmerge.destination = wdSendToPrinter
>goWordApp.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.Execute
>goWordApp.documents.close(wdDoNotSaveChanges)
>goWordApp.quit()
>release goWordApp
>
>
>You can get more info on the commands if you have installed the Visual Basic for Applications help that is accessible from the Word help menu.
>
>
>*-- Visual Basic global variables to be placed in a header file that
>*is included with your project
>
>#DEFINE wdPrintAllDocument 0
>#DEFINE wdPrintDocumentContent 0
>#DEFINE wdPrintAllPages 0
>#DEFINE wdSaveChanges -1
>#DEFINE wdDoNotSaveChanges 0
>#DEFINE wdEnglishUS 1033
>#DEFINE wdFormatText 2
>#DEFINE wdCollapseEnd 0
>#DEFINE wdPageBreak 7
>#DEFINE wdStory 6
>#DEFINE wdCharacter 1
>#DEFINE wdWindowStateMaximize 1
>#DEFINE wdFieldEmpty -1
>#DEFINE wdSectionBreakNextPage 2
>#DEFINE wdSendToPrinter 1