>>Mark,
>It opens several instances of Word & the docu at the same time, and reduces my system memory to the point of stopping the system. Now Cetin gave some tips that I am going to use in order to avoid this.

Mark,

What you need to do to prevent the multiple instances of word is to use a reference to the word object that persists. If this suttf is all happening in a single form you can in the Init;

 LOCAL lnChan
 lnChan = DDEInitiate("Word","System")
 IF lnChan < 0
    * Word is not running
    THISFORM.WordWasRunning = .F.
    THISFORM.oWord = CreateObject("Word.Basic")
 ELSE
    DDETerminate(lnChan)
    THISFORM.WordWasRunning = .T.
    THISFORM.oWord = GetObject("Word.Basic")
 ENDIF

Now anywhere in that form or any of its controls you can refer to THISFORM.oWord as a rerference to the word object. In the destroy of the form you can;

 IF NOT THISFORM.WordWasRunning
    THISFORM.oWord.FileExit()
 ENDIF