The unformatted text makes it hard to read and it loads really slow, but it works...



>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.
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have done some office automation with VFP. All is well with it. I worked some mail merge fields from tables into word documents.
>>>>
>>>>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?