>I want to start MS-WORD and have it load a report created by
>VFP while within VFP. I do not want to create an OLE object
>on the form, just to call WORD with something like:
>Wordobject=createobject("Word.Basic")
>Wordobject.FileOpen("filename.txt")
>
>This works but the window is not diplayed. If I could display the window so the user can then edit the word file without leaving VFP, that's the ticket.
>
>This has gotta be easy, but I cannot find any doc on it.
>Thanks,
>brett

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