How is this set up? I know that your Fox app is on the network server, but what about Word itself? Is that a local installation on each pc, or is it too run from the network? To be honest, I don't really know where I might be going with this, but it appears from the symptoms you are giving, that Word itself doesn't seem to be aware that a 'C:' drive exists when the client is running Win2K. If 'Word' is on the network, maybe the shared drive permissions on the client are causing a problem? I realize it isn't likely, but right now straw grasping seems to be about the only course left.

Alan

>I tested it too and it works fine for me on W2k with Word2000 if the document exists. If the document does not exist, I get an OLE error.
>Tracy
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>>Alan,
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>>Not a dumb question at all! The weird thing is that on the network in question:
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>>3 PCs running Win 98 work perfectly 100% opening the correct document
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>>3 PCs running Win 2K fail 100% opening the correct document
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>>Each PC has its own c:\ipletters directory with the correct Word files (checked many times).
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>>Any ideas? Could it be a network card problem?