That's why I said it's iffy :)

You need it to work in VFP5 also? If so, I would follow George's advice in this matter...

>Thanks, but What if the user doesn't have Word installed?? ;-)
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>Thanks any way,
>
>Luis
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>>Ooops! I missed that (he shouldn't have put in in parenthesis *grin*)...
>>
>>There is GetDefaultPrinter that works under NT/W2K, but I've never used it.
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>>You can get the default printer using Word.application dialog, but that's iffy:
>>

>>oWord = CREATEOBJECT("word.application")
>>oDialog = oWord.Dialogs(97)
>>? odialog.printer

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>>
>>>>Luis,
>>>>
>>>>Do you have to use API, or will VFP be okay? :)
>>>
>>>Quote: (without using any VFP function)
>>>I missed it first time I read the message to :)
>>>