>>If I have a General Field that contains an OLE embedded Word Document, does anyone know if it's possible to extract this back into a stand-alone Word document file. If so, how would I go about doing this.
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>>Thanks!
>>John Zivic
>>Chandler, Arizona
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>John,
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>There is no wya to do this with only VFP. You could double click the general field to opne the document in word and then choose Save As from the Word menu to save it under another name.

This is wrong. You could do it with only VFP if you could embed it (that is if the host already exist on the system) in VFP. No need to open by dblclick and choose SaveAs. Word docs could be saved via OLEAutomation using word.basic or word.application (Office97). Since you have a reference to an OLEBoundControl (word object) on a form you could use object's PEM. No need to createobject(), object is there and have a reference to it.

* Assuming you have an embedded word doc, and on a form it's olbWf (OLEBoundControl) 
ThisForm.olbWf.object.saveas("cetins.doc")

For a more detailed example see "Interacting with word using word.basic" in KB\FAQ section.
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