>can I open a worddoc so it is in a modal window?
>so my program waits until word gets closed??
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>Thanks
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>peter

Peter,
My reaction would be no, no:) You can make the form modal but do not use "do while" to check if it's closed. You can use a timer instead or hook to word events with eventhandler and check word is closing.
Cetin