Hi Lorne,

I use textmerge quite a bit, and here is what I would do:

lfullname = lpath + lfile
SET TEXTMERGE ON
SET TEXTMERGE TO (lFullName) noshow && File name string expression
\3
\2
\1
set textmerge to
modi file (lFullName)

Glenn

>I need to write an assortment of documents via textmerge. No problem with the format, it's opening files dynamicly that is messing up
> my code:
>lfullname = lpath + lfile
>lhfile = FOPEN(lfullname, 11)
>SET TEXTMERGE ON
>SET TEXTMERGE TO lhfile
>
>writes to a file called lhfile (lhfile.txt, not what it ought to be), not the file and path contained in lpath and lfile, and to close the file after exporting the data, I want to use the handle (lhfile). I have also tried it with TO lfullname to no avail, it still opens as lfullname.txt, not expinv.csv as in the var lfile.
>I can't hard code the file and path in, so I need to do it this way or similar.
>
>Thanks