See if the approach described in Thread #695222 will help.

>Hi Everyone,
>
>We are using VFP 9 in our next release of accounting software.
>One feature that we would like to have is to have spellcheck in our editbox.
>In doing this, we would call Microsoft Word SpellCheck and pass the text of the editbox.
>
>Currently, we can successfully call SpellCheck of MSWord, but we have one issue. Our issue is that once the MSWord SpellCheck window is displayed, if we click anywhere outside it’s window, it would display the message
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>"This action cannot be completed because the other program is busy. Choose 'Switch To' to activate the busy program and correct the problem."
>
>Any idea how not to display this message?