Just my input: If using Word, I think OLE automation is fine. If using WordPerfect, I would strongly suggest using DDE instead.

Take care,
Joe

>>I would like to have a button on form that lets me generate a letter to the person whose record I am viewing. I thought this would be easy because I could just put the text into a report and then use fields to merge in data from the table. The problem is that it is not
>>easy to get the text of the letter formatted properly, because of the fact that memo fields don't retain any special formatting, and labels don't hold enough information.
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>>I noticed a RTF thing in archives, but it isn't compatible with NT.
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>>Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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>There have been several threads here about automating Word and/or Word Perfect with VFP. If they have either one of these you can probaly make that work.
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>HTH
>Jeff