word.basic pre-dates the Word object model, as does the solution sample you looked at.

Word still has 'application.basic', I think, which is how they achieved backwards compatibility for existing macros, but it's less reliable that talking directly to the object model.

Dan

>Thanks Marcia,
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>That looks good. The reason I got confused was that the solutions sample created the object with o=CREATEOBJECT('word.basic') but I could not find any 'basic' object in the object browser, and the context help did not work either.
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>With your way of instantiating the 'word.application' it all makes sense, and I am in tune with the type library.
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>Thanks again.
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>Steven
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>>Anyone has any links to some good articles about automating Microsoft Word from VFP?
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>>Download the sample code and the white paper from the downloads page of my web site.