Yes. OLE Automation is the new/modernized way to do this. What are you using the VFP data for in the Word document? Creating/populating values in a WOrd table? If you have specifics, we can give you specific examples of how to do this. There are many of us who have done this. There is even a book on this specifically for VFP developers.

>We are updating an OLD 2.6 app to VFP and the old app uses DDE to create a Word MailMerge. We print upwards of 400 letters a day from this system and would like to find something in VFP that will handle the job outside of DDE. I see in the MSDN samples that there is an ActiveX control called "OLEWORD". Problem is that I can't find all the properties and/or OLE interface commands listed anywhere.
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>I'm sure that the old DDE will work OK with VFP, but I would think that there are better ways in the newer versions.
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>Anybody know of a way to take a table and use it for a data source, merge it with an existing Word document and send it directly to the printer without user intervention?
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>Thanks,