Hi Nirav, Nice Name,

I picked up this code from one of the threads in UT, Hope this can help.

Make a form Function say SendToWord call from the form command click like

thisform.sendtoword(thisform.edit1,"c:\1.doc")

FORM FUNCTION SENDTOWORD

Lparameters oMemo, cFilename
** parameters are the editbox object and a filename to keep a copy
** filename is not really necessary.
lcObject=Sys(1272, oMemo)
lcObject=Strtran(lcObject, Getwordnum(lcObject, 1, "."), "thisform")
This.cobjectforword=lcObject
_Cliptext=""
_Cliptext=oMemo.Value
This.cdocfilename=Fullpath(cFilename)
	With This.oword
		.documents.Add.Content.Paste
** this is just the special needs of my app - set language to English (US)
		.documents.Item(1).Content.Select
		.Selection.LanguageID = 1033
		.Selection.NoProofing = .F.
		.Application.CheckLanguage = .F.
** end special
		.documents.Item(1).SaveAs(This.cdocfilename)
		.Visible=.T.
	Endwith
Messagebox("Now Alt-tab to bring up Word. Return here and click OK when finished with Word (don't close it)")

Make another Commadn Button and call the Word text in it.

If Type("Thisform.oword.documents")="O" and;
	Thisform.oword.documents.count>0 and ;
	Not Empty(Thisform.cdocfilename) 
	*And Not type(Thisform.cobjectforword)="O"
	With Thisform.oword
		With .documents.Item(1)
			.content.select()
			.content.Copy()
			.Save()
		Endwith
		.documents.Close
		.Visible=.F.
	Endwith
	Local oEditbox
	oEditbox=Evaluate(Thisform.cobjectforword)
	oEditbox.value=_cliptext
	oEditbox.SetFocus()
	Store "" To Thisform.cdocfilename, Thisform.cobjectforword
Endif

You need few form properties like

Thisform.oword
Thisform.cdocfilename
Thisform.cobjectforword

Once you have data from word you can go for crystal report.
Aashish

>Hello,
>
>My question is regarding using Crystal Reports to link multiple Word documents together. We need it such that we can make changes to the Word files, and the Crystal report will automatically reflect these changes (the next time it's opened). Turns out that this is a not so simple task. I thought that I could use the FoxPro 'General' field type to store a link to the Word document like this:
>

>APPEND GENERAL tgeneral FROM W:\ICOSNPD\acord.doc LINK CLASS "Word.Document.6"

>
>Well, that apparently isn't very efficient and creates large .FPT files. Still, I suppose I'd be willing to deal with that.
>
>After this, I figured I could just drag the general field onto the Crystal Report and it would work like I wanted. Well, not much luck here. The rpt doesn't seem to be getting updated when I make changes to the original Word document. I noticed that if I embed the Word file in the General field, then it seems to work how I want it, but then that brings up a whole lot of other problems.
>
>What is the best route I can take with this? I wish there was a way I could just store the paths to the files (which actually are already stored elsewhere in the database) and just tell Crystal where to find the Docs.
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
>We're using FoxPro 6.0 and Crystal 8.5