Perry,

Thank you for mentioning Ed Rauh's APPRUN class. I'm not sure this will apply though because I want my progress/status form to close once Word (or the Open Office equivalent) has opened the requested document - not when the called application is closed. In other words, once a document is loaded, a user may switch back to my application and continue working.

I'm going to take another look at the APPRUN class and see if it can be used to provide the above interface.

Malcolm