oWord.Visible=.t.
>Hello Group.
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>Trying to learn office automation.
>This code does not generate an error but does not open the helloworld.doc either.
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>oWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
>oDocument = oWord.Documents.Open("c:\HelloWorld.doc")
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>Once it opened Word with no document and I had to reboot to close Word.
>Word showed up on my computer screen but did not appear in the task manager window.
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>How do I get to open the document and view it?
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>Thanks
>Jim
Imagination is more important than knowledge