This is not an answer to your question but if you create MS Word docs, you can save them in WP format via SAVE AS. Just a thought...

>Howdy Gang,
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>My client has my VFP 5.0 app that I am rewriting in VB.NET and today they asked me about pulling data out into WordPerfect 8 for some special documents they need. I used to do this via DDE in my old FPW and VFP days, but I don't want to do down that road again.
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>The data in the new app will be pulled from SQL Server to go into these WP8 documents.
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>I am already using the Word spell check via OLE....Can I do the OLE thing as well in WP as I can in Word ???
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>I figure there might be a new slick way to do this in .NET that somebody out there has already done and could point me in the right direction.
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>TIA !!!
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>Best Regards,
>Jace
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>Genesys Technologies