Good Morning Ted: The getobject(,word.application) runs much better with no screen flash! Thank you! I knew what I was doing was kluge at best but at the time this is the only way I could think to make it work. And when folks are waiting to print the 725 docs it needed to get done. There was a deadline on this and, of course, it was on a rush job order which went to top of the other rush job items. This is why I love the quote from Douglas Adams "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by". Douglas Adams was the former Doctor Who script writer and creator of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. I have this line in all my projects. I appreciate your help! Best regards Jack
Jack: It's only been thirteen years since I edited "Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro" http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/autofox.htm and, well, you can always count on things from Microsoft changing. If you are processing a set of documents in a row, you shouldn't need to recreate the Word application object each time. I think this is a case where you want to use GETOBJECT on the 2nd and later documents, rather than CREATEOBJECT once you've started Word, and then Close() the document (after, as you've noted, a pause for it to queue, or perhaps just close them all at the end) and Open() a new document and work on that, rather than have the Automation system start a new version of Word each time. Now, whether Word behaves well under these circumstances is something you'll need to test... Jack Skelley Senior Director, Programming/Computer Operations New Jersey Devils (973)757-6164 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/7d9e7f72b813014c8fd022cf04f820ed58635...@ex08.drdad.thenewarkarena.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
