>>>Could someone please tell me how I can get a handle to Word and then activate it. I've been trying to use FindWindow but that requires the exact window name.
>>>
>>>Thanks in anticipation.
>>
>>You can use Word Class instead of Window name. Like:
>>
>>DECLARE INTEGER FindWindow IN Win32API;
>> STRING @lpClassName, STRING @lpWindowName
>>pClass_name="OpusApp" &&for MS Word
>>hWnd = FindWindow(pClass_name, 0)
>
>Yuri,
>
>Ok that looks good but what on earth is OpusApp?

See fo instance, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q104710&. There are listed many classes used for common windows applications.