Sounds like a winner to me !!! I'll make sure the configuration is setup properly at the client. I'll start working on it...

Thanks !!!
Jace

>You will need to install word where the automation is going to occur. When I said "they don't need to purchase", I meant they don't need it for each user. You can have the reports to run on the server and SAVE AS documents on any local/remote path.
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>>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 ???
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>>TIA !!!
>>Jace
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>>>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