>Hi!
>
>Probably, you should use OLE Automation instead of DDE...
>
>Have a happy day
>Vladimir Shevchenko
>
>> I have no problem talking to Word (once it is running) to make pretty
>> 1) Run it from within VFP 5

I AM using OLE automation...
For example:
oWord = CREATEOBJECT("Word.Basic") && Get a reference to Word
oWord.FileOpen("filename of master merge file")
oWord.MailMergeToDoc && To do the actual mailmerge
oWord=null && Disconnect

But I still don't understand how to detect if Word is already running and second how to run it once I determine that it is not...

Anybody else?