Mike,
Right you can debug into COM properties and it's cool. Also what Paul says (Object browser) is cool and honestly I found it as the coolest feature of VFP7. Probably you'd also love that when you see you could drag&drop an interface node from object browser window onto your code window and voila VFP writes all the class definition for you to talk to automation object (ie:word). Or drag&drop a constants node and VFP writes the #define lines for you :) Not just Intellisense which doesn't need the OB.
Cetin