I didn't ask for him, asked for myself:) I thought I might have given up early.
Cetin

>Honestly, no. I've only ever used it to launch non-automation supported apps from within VFP when I want to pause processing until the external app is closed. I wouldn't go this route for automation supported apps. Is he wanting to do that? I must have missed that part of the message...
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>>Tracy,
>>Have you ever tried this with office applications like word? Last time I tried to build something around this it was failing (one of the instances were returning immediately - word behaves like an MDI while Excel like an SDI) if I call it for a 2nd instance of word and I gave up.
>>Cetin