Please let me know if anyone has seen this condition and has an answer.

I have an applicatin that opens a word document and retrieves information to insert in a database. That is all working fine. My problem is testing for Word being open.

I have been using the Win32API for getting the handle to a file.

DECLARE INTEGER FindWindow IN Win32API;
STRING @lpClassName, ;
STRING @lpWindowName

For Word, the Class Name is "OpusApp". And the information on the Window name changes for each file I open. Since the lpWindowName must be an exact match for the function to work I will need to save the file name in order to check if Word is open using FindWindow(). Not great.

What I have found is that I can call FindWindow("OpusApp",0) and it returns a handle.
I can then open that window with another function called showwindow

DECLARE INTEGER ShowWindow IN user32 INTEGER hwnd, INTEGER nCmdShow

But it will return a handle even if Word is closed. It returns the handle Word had when it was open. This is not checking for Word being open.
I need to check for Word being open because any call to oWord.documents throws an RPC server not available error if Word is not open. Do I need to live with this and trap the error?

Has anyone seen this, or is my computer behaving funny.

TIA