Phil,

PMFJI... Della is certainly the expert here, but I think you want the first line to be

oWord=CREATEOBJECT('word.application')

The application object contains the documents collection, which you can use to open a document as you're doing in your second line of code.

BTW, Della and Tamar's "Office Automation" book is definitely a good investment if you're going to be doing much of this kind of work.

-Rick

>>Try this as the first four lines:
>>

<b>oWord</b>=CREATEOBJECT('word.document')
>><b>oDocument = oWord</b>.documents.OPEN('c:\qcf19.doc')
>><b>oWord</b>.VISIBLE=.T.
>>
>>oRange = <b>o</b>Document.selection.range()

>>
>>The bolding indicates changed items. Mostly, I've renamed the object variables to clarify what object is reference, though I did add an oDocument object so you can track the document separately.
>
>I took your advice, and now have the code shown:
>
>

oWord=CREATEOBJECT('word.document')
>oDocument = oWord.documents.OPEN('c:\qcf19.doc')
>oWord.VISIBLE=.T.
>oRange = oDocument.selection.range()
>#DEFINE wdLine 5
>
>with oRange
>.MoveDown(wdLine,1)
>.TypeParagraph
>.TypeParagraph
>.MoveUp(wdLine,2)
>.InsertDateTime("MMMM d, yyyy",.f.)
>.TypeParagraph
>.Typeparagraph
>.TypeText (&l_address)
>endwith

>
>I get an error on the second line (oDocument=oWord.documents.OPEN('c:\qcf19.doc') which says "Member DOCUMENTS does not evaluate to an object".
>
>(puzzled look)
>
>Thanks again for your patience and persistence :)