How to Perform a DDEPOKE from FoxPro to Word for Windows

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0
• Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, versions 2.5 and 2.5a

You can use the DDEPOKE() function to insert information from FoxPro for Windows into a document created in Microsoft Word versions 2.0c and 6.0 for Windows.

In order to use the DDEPOKE() function, you must declare in the Word document a specific location to poke the information into. To declare the location, create a bookmark within the Word document. For example, the following code will poke information into a Word document that has a bookmark called "test":

   run /n i:\winword\winword.exe i:\winword\letter.doc
   mchannel=DDEinitiate("WinWord","i:\winword\letter.doc")
   =DDESETOPTION('SAFETY',.F.)
   =DDEPOKE(mchannel,"test","Hello World!")
   =DDETERMINATE(mchannel)

The topic name for the DDEINITIATE() function must be the document name; in this example, the document name is "c:\winword\letter.doc". The string "Hello World!" will be inserted in the document at the "test" bookmark.