Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!sumax!amc-gw!nevius From: nevius@amc-gw.UUCP (John Nevius) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Opening word doc's from stacks Message-ID: <634@amc-gw.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 89 00:33:18 GMT Reply-To: nevius@amc-gw.UUCP (John Nevius) Distribution: na Organization: Applied Microsystems Corporation, Redmond, WA. Lines: 30 Sorry if this question has be asked before. . . I'm modifying my phone address stack and would like to add a link to a MS word file where I keep a log of whom I talked to, when, what it was about, action items, etc. etc. I created a field that holds the company name (company) and a button with the following script: on mouseUp put background field "company" into tempCompany open tempCompany with Microsoft Word end mouseUp When I try this some strange things happen: If word is not running. The appropriate document opens and all is well. If Word is running (I use Multifinder), I get the menu bar, but nothing else. If I don't get a document name match (this sometimes occurs even though the field company and the word document name are _exactly_ the same), I get dumped back to my home stack to the document path card. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks, John Nevius