I've noticed several post on the subject of the errormessage "Failed
to create empty document". This message may be at bit misleading...

One possible cause of this problem is that the form your trying to
show is containing RichEdit2 controls. My solution, when I encounterd
this problem on an NT machine, was to call the AfxInitRichEdit2() to
load the RichEdit 2.0 controls in the InitInstance() method of my app.

Hope this provides some help for anyone out there...