Thanks for your help. I spent all day yesterday reading old threads and came to the same conclusion. It was just discouraging because Cetin's class was so close to doing exactly what I wanted, but then I read a post from Cetin that said his mailmerge download was out of date. Definately do not want to start with somthing that is already finished. There ought to be a way to keep the Files Section current.

Anyway, I bought the MS Office Automation with VFP book from Hentzenwerke and downloaded their source code. I am working with it but quite there yet. My client's can have existing mailmerge documents with attached data sources or want to to create blank new documents and i will attach the datasource. So working through their model but not understanding how it will fit into my needs. I do like that they do not use ODBC because I had the 2.1 mdac which was causing me grief. But not sure how using a new datasource for existing docuemnts will work.

Thanks Again

Brenda

>I have downloaded and looked at that mailmerge class. The problem is that the >syntax is different when you create the Word object using 'word.basic'. The >SaveAssyntax works when you create the Word object using 'word.application'. I >do not know what the correct syntax is for Word.Basic.
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>I also searched previous threads here for comments on word.basic. That >version, as I stated earlier was from older [obsolete] versions of Word. While >access to the word.basic model is still available [but not supported?], it may >not be in future versions. I think before you go much further, maybe you could >get Cetin to update his class to the word.application model.