>Hi Bret,
>>I have a win 95 machine and the create object command below works fine. Just a wild guess, but is Word installed on the Windows 95 machine and what version is it?
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>Yes Word is installed in fact I've been playing with a Windows 95 test machine and it bombs on it. We are working with Word 97.
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>Is there maybe something that should be installed that isn't? We have a standard pc setup and Office 97 is part of that. I've checked and we have all the SP's installed too.
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>Thanks
>Bill

I use Word 97 SR2 on the Windows 95 Machine I tested the createobject on. Did you try uninstalling Word on the Windows 95 machine and reinstalling, becuase it sounds like it did not register itself properly.