Terry,
Thanks very much again. I have used the macro recorder many times. Recently,however, I ran into this form

http://tram.east.asu.edu/forms/downloads/epa/pc/epa-424.doc

which left me wondering if there was a way to convert an existing word doc with its table into vfp automation code.

By the way, would you know how to covert this bit of VB code -- taken from a macro recording of opening a text file in Excel -- into VFP code?

Workbooks.OpenText Filename:="C:\d\tax\200210.txt", Origin:=xlWindows, _
StartRow:=1, DataType:=xlFixedWidth, FieldInfo:=Array(Array(0, 1), Array(14 _
, 1), Array(42, 1), Array(67, 1), Array(70, 1), Array(83, 1))

The above code seems to duplicate the act of appending in a text file into a vfp table, then using the replace command to sutff a series of fields, based on the knowledge the text file stores data in fixed width columns.

Steve