>Hi Cetin.
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>OTOH if you'd still use OpenDatasource you might OpenDatasource which is another office product (doc, xls, mdb). Writing them first is easy and works in all versions I used (w97,2000,2002).
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>Great minds think alike < s >. That is how I do it too. I export my data to an Excel Spread sheet from my VFP program and use the Excel Spread sheet as the data source for my mail merge. I guess I figure that since Excel is a part of Ms Office, it is probabaly always be on "speaking terms" with other products in the Ms Office Suite.
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>It seems to have worked pretty well so far....

Yes :) How are you doing BTW. I prefer simple txt file as source since word can open it natively (as does excel).
It's not surprising all code samples have either excel,word or access as the source :)
Excel XP and 2003 also broke so well working codes :( In excel case it's easier to fix luckily.
Cetin