>Hello All;
>I'm new at OOP and in reviewing the samples in VFP5, I noticed that
>instead of the old "RUN /N7 whatever.exe", they used something to
>effect of:
> newobject = CREATEOBJECT("Word.basic")
> x = APPminimize("newobject")
>
>I'm curious - How do you know the value word.basic? If you want to run a different application how do you know what value to put into
>this object area name??
>
>Thanks

It works in slightly different way.
oWord = CREATEOBJECT("Word.Basic")
and now you have the object to use it as reference point for Word PEM, e.g.
oWord.AppShow