Well, now Word gets launched, but this line says "member SELECTION does not evaluate to an object":
oRange = oDocument.selection.range()

I plan to pick up the book for the holidays :)

Thanks.


>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 :)