I am not versed, forget well versed, with Word. I tried going through all available menu options in Word2K, I couldn't find a place to create variables from the Word Document window and then place them on the document as place holder, not as value which I was able to do.

>What do you mean, "I was not able to create and place variables from Word"?
>You can gather variables defined in the document and pass them to your program:
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>dime aVariablesfromWord[.ActiveDocument.Variables.Count,2]
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>for ia=1 to .ActiveDocument.Variables.Count
>aVariablesfromWord[ia,1]=.ActiveDocument.Variables(ia).Name
>aVariablesfromWord[ia,2]=.ActiveDocument.Variables(ia).VAlue
>endfor
>
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>>Yes thanks Yuri I can create variables programatically but I want the users to be able to place the variables (I can create the basic DOT file with variables before hand if required) but I was not able to create and place variables from Word.
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>>>Something like this:
>>>
>>>* add variables
>>> .ActiveDocument.Variables("Client.ICID").Value=23
>>> ?.ActiveDocument.Variables.Count
>>> ?.ActiveDocument.Variables(1).Name
>>> ?.ActiveDocument.Variables(1).Value
>>>>Hi
>>>>
>>>>I have to create a Word Doc Template. This template is supposed to allow the user to put in predefined fieldnames, names that the VFP automation program expects from this template.
>>>>
>>>>Q1. How and Where to define DocVariables in a template file?
>>>>Q2. How to put these DocVariables (not it's value) in the template file?