Sounds like a good direction to go. What component do I need to add or reference from my .Net project to give me this ability for a machine that does not have any MS-Office component (let alone Word) installed on it ???

TIA !!!
Jace

>They don't have to purchase word. You can automate the SAVE AS task using Word automation. This would be a very easy thing to do.
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>>That would work, but this is a huge law firm running WP8 only. They can't purchase Word for everyone. If they could, this would be a whole lot easier to deal with. I run WP9 at home and it has a lot of XML support, I wonder if there is something I can do there...
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>>Thanks!!!
>>Jace
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>>>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...
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>>>>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