Hi Jim,

A very few are documented under VFP Help "ActiveX Controls overview". There are pointers to the associated .CHM files. Otherwise, start Googling :-)

>Tools-->Options-->Controls lists lots of ActiveX controls available to me.
>
>However, I can't find out how to learn what any of these actually do (can be used for). I picked a few names shown there and looked for them (Index) in MSDN (April 2002) but they simply aren't in the index.
>
>Where does one learn:
>1) What they look like;
>2) How they can be used and what restrictions they have?
>
>thanks