>Thanks mucho Eric!
>Any suggestions on where to find doc on this stuff?
>- brett
>
>>>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
>>
>>Add this line:
>>wordobject.appshow

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