Dan,

Thanks for the info. I may have a need to do what you are doing in the future, regarding editing RTF text in VFP, so this is good to know, i.e. Chado Spell. But for now, at least, I expect that the user will be creating RTF documents in word directly. But I'm hoping to avoid word automation if I can, since I don't know if word will be installed on the target machines. (Am I correct that a licened copy of MS Word needs to be installed on the machine, or is it possible to have a subset of word files just for automation?)



>David,
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>I'm not sure how close this is to what you do, but here's one setup I have:
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>Users can edit RTF text in VFP. (I use Chado Spell Editor. Good price and lots of features, including spell check).
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>I then automate "mail merges" in VFP with Word automation, sticking data in user-setup Word Templates. This allows the user to setup Word templates with the margins, paper sources, headers, etc. they need while allowing "merging" of formatted RTF text (which, unfortunatly, you can't do through Word's mail merge capabilities).
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>HTH