>I am having a terrible time trying to figure out the best way to print letters in VFP 5.0. It seems that no matter what I try, (eg. Report Form, TextMerge, Word Mail Merge) I always run into some problem. I can't believe it is so hard to print a simple business letter from within VFP. Isn't there hundreds of companies out there that have this requirement? Anybody out there that has found a way to print form letters share your solution with me please? Thank you
>GeneS

Well, another weakness of VB!! (rofl)
Word was written in VB, but even the wonderful Office 97 version CAN'T USE A DBC!!! MS never ceases to amaze me.

Gene, I think the best way to get a sharp looking letter is to copy the necessary data from a table in your DBC to a free table and then mail merge from that table. You could write a simple app to do it without user intervention and then distribute it to anyone who needs the data. That way anyone can write a form letter in word and get data from the DBF.

HTH

Matt