Hi David,

Comments in-line with your question.

>I am a newbie to doing word automation. I am having trouble with the syntax for executing some of the methods. I have seen the documentation on MSDN (as discussed in other threads)
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>This is what I want to accomplish:
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>1) I have a 'base' word document. It has mostly fixed text, but some variable text. Most of the variable text is in tables. Some is embedded within a paragraph.
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>2) I want to copy the base document to another temp document and then open the temp document with word automation.
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>3) I want to write changes to the variable text and save the temp document.
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>4) I want to print the temp document via word automation.
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>I am good with steps 1,2 and 4.
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>How can I access and write to individual cells in the table. How can I change other variable text that is not in a table.
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>The online documentation on MSDN gives an example of making a document the active document:
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>Documents("MyDocument.doc").Activate
>What is the VFP equivalent for this?
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>I already have:
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>oWord=CREATEobject("Word.Application")
>lcfilename='execsum\'+'execsummain3.doc'
>oWord.Visible= .t.
>oDoc=oWord.Documents.Open(lcfilename)
>** the above works
>** next i want to activate the document, and write changes to a table cell
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>** the code below doesnt' work
>odoc.activate("execsummain3.doc") && error ole error code 80020011 - does not *support a collection

You already have a reference to a document in your oDoc variable. You should just be able to use oDoc.Activate.

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>wait wind odoc.activedoc.tables(1).cell('Row:=1', 'Column:=1')

Again, you don't need oDoc.ActiveDoc - ActiveDoc is an application property that returns a reference to a document. You've already got a reference to the appropriate document.

Next, you can't use named arguments in VFP. You need to do away with the Row:= and the Column:= parts - you should use odoc.tables(1).cell(1, 1).

>** get activedoc is not an object (or similar)
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>**what should the syntax be for activating the document, writing changes to the
>** table
>***********************
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>**this works
>odoc.close()
> oword.quit(0)
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>TIA

Cheers,

Andrew