Rick,

There is no difference in service packs for Win2000 - one machine has office 97 and the other has office 2000.

I'm working at the command line - nothing else involved -

oWord = CREATEOBJECT("Word.application") works as does
oDocument = GETOBJECT("C:\My Documents\I247a.doc") works also or at least to the point of making it the document within Word to edit

because when I issue:

oWord.Application.visible = .T. up comes Word with the document I247a as the active document.

Also works:

oWord.Windowstate = 0 so word reacts to at least manipulating the application itself but as soon as I try:

? oDocument.name

or even

? oWord.activeDocument.name

I get the error "OLE error code x800a8029: Unknown COM status code"

It appears that it will let me manipulate the Word Application itself but not act on any document that is opened in Word.


I have no anti-virus app currently operating on either system.

HTH's with any diagnosis

Thanks for any help you can provide,

Steve