Hi Mike.

>I have in the past used the MSCommon Dialog control in my VFP forms and it works very well. Now I want to use it without placing it on a form. How do I apply the VFP command "CREATEOBJECT()" to make an open file dialog object?

In addition to the other answers you've received, you might want to take a look at the _ComDlg class in _System.vcx of the FFC folder under the VFP home directory.

Doug