Hi everyone,

I am trying to learn some things here - mostly to do with automation (having Tamars' book in hand). I have many ideas on using automation from within VFP into office applications, including some seamless operations. But, I see serious problems in how it is all put together: Specifically sendng emails back and forth.

I am supposing a situation as follows (asterisks mark the things I don't know how to do):

With VFP Automation:

1)A user decides to pull out some very specific client information (SQL Backend)
2)Open MS Word. Create a word document
3)Place the selected items on the document
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4)Call on word email automation to Email the word document, document as the email (not as an attachment)
(as send a UT Message/Thread AS the message, not as an attachment)
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5)Close the word document (without saving)(don't want to eat up space)
6)Open an Excel document - add the same data, do some calculations on data already there
7)Save the Excel document
8)Send email using Outlook, stating document update and location to another person

With some digging and reading, and searches here, I am beginning to better understand automation processes. Having completed most of the above tasks now. However, item 4 above escapes me. Any help in this would be greatly appreciated.


TIA

Ric