You could extract the text from the document, and insert it into the control of your choice:

oWord = CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")
oWord.documents.open(yourdocument)
oWord.ActiveDocument.Content.Copy
lcTEXT=_cliptext
oWord.quit
oWord=.null.
release oWord

* do what you wish with lcTEXT

>I was actually looking for something where I could put the contents of the word document in an object like an input box or something like that. I didn't want to do a seperate window type thing like a print preview would do.
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>>You could use word automation :
>>- set appropriate Word Menu options to disabled, like:
>> oword.CommandBars("Menu Bar").Enabled = .f.
>>- open the document in preview mode:
>> oWord.ActiveDocument.printpreview()
>>- wait while "preview"$LOWER(oWOrd.ActiveWindow.Caption)
>>......
>>- set Menu options back
>>oword.CommandBars("Menu Bar").Enabled = .t.
>>
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>>>I have done some office automation with VFP. All is well with it. I worked some mail merge fields from tables into word documents.
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>>>Now I am looking at simply displaying the document's template on the screen so they can see a sample of the text within the letter when they choose what type of form letter they would like to select. Is there an active X control or anything else which would display this as a read only object on the screen?