oWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
oWord.Visible = .t.
oWord.Open("c:\HelloWorld.doc")

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>Hello Group.
>
>
>Trying to learn office automation.
>This code does not generate an error but does not open the helloworld.doc either.
>
>oWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
>oDocument = oWord.Documents.Open("c:\HelloWorld.doc")
>
>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.
>
>How do I get to open the document and view it?
>
>Thanks
>Jim