Della

> My favorite way of getting the path/filename for an Automation server's
EXE is to first find the CLSID, then look up >the CLSID and find its
LocalServer32 key, which holds the path/filename of the EXE (and is what
Automation uses to >locate the server). Here's some code that does just
that:
>

* CheckServer.prg
> * © 2000, Tamar E. Granor and Della Martin
> * From:  Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro
> * Hentzenwerke Publishing. www.hentzenwerke.com
>

Thanks for the info - I've actually got your book and just found the section
containing the code you sent !

BTW : Have you found any nifty ways to speed up loading Word in the first
instance - this seems to take a long time on some of the PCs my clients have
ie Pentiums with 64MB RAM. What one of the other developers has done is
write a multi-threaded dll in Delphi (I think). This is fired as soon as the
VFP form appears and loads Word in the background (with the a new document
from the required template) while the User is sitting in front of the VFP
form filling in details for his/her document.
However, this dll is a little unstable  at times.

Just wondering ...

Regards

Anna