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Works great!  However in your close_cmd button you must comment out the objapp.quit() because vb.net claims it's ambiguous (which is why i put the me.close in there).  Also, I read somewhere that we shouldn't use the unload command--I believe it was from Rollarshade, so I didn't.  Now--how would I load data into the Word document using a SQL Server?

Code:

       If objDoc Is Nothing Then
           MsgBox("Application not running")
       Else
           Me.Close()
           'objApp.Quit()
           objDoc = Nothing
           objApp = Nothing
       End If

Code:

If objDoc Is Nothing Then
           Me.Close()
       Else
           MsgBox("Please close application first")
       End If

this is a great example of how to create a new document using OLE but how can I point to and open an existing document?  I want to edit the text that your example had me save.