Glad it helped.

>Hi again
>
>I feel so stupid now. I just realize a few minute after I try your code that my Acrobat reader is a french version. So ("%ES") and ("%EC") ("%FC") must be change to fit the french menu. This is working !!!!!!!
>
>Mike
>
>
>>See if this meet your needs:
>>
>>

>>IF ADIR(aa,"c:\*.pdf")<=0
>>	?"???"
>>	RETURN
>>ENDIF
>>
>>lcfind="yourword"
>>
>>oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
>>FOR ia =1 TO ALEN(aa,1)
>>	_cliptext=""
>>	
>>	oShell.Run("c:\"+aa[ia,1])
>>
>>	lnsec=SECONDS()
>>	DO WHILE NOT oShell.AppActivate("Acrobat Reader - ["+aa[ia,1]+"]") and;
>>			SECONDS()-lnsec <60
>>		WAIT WINDOW TIMEOUT 1.0 "Open "+aa[ia,1]
>>	ENDDO
>>	IF oShell.AppActivate("Acrobat Reader - ["+aa[ia,1]+"]")
>>
>>		oShell.SendKeys("%ES")	
>>		oShell.SendKeys("%EC")
>>
>>		INKEY(5)
>>
>>		oShell.SendKeys("%FC")  &&close pdf file
>>
>>	ENDIF
>>
>>	?aa[ia,1], lcfind$_cliptext
>>	
>>ENDFOR
>>
>>IF oShell.AppActivate("Acrobat Reader")
>>	oShell.SendKeys("%Fx")
>>endif
>>
>>oShell =.null.
>>
>>

>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>We want from VFP to be able to find a string in a lot of pdf file. User will put a string in a field to search for and vfp must find all pdf document containing that string. We were thinking about some dll able to do Ole with vfp and able to search in pdf returning information about all the file matching the search.
>>>
>>>Any help will be appreciate.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Mike