>That's only part of the problem. The user should not create new documents, Print, Save or Save As either. I can take away most of the toolbar but the problem really seems to be how to regain control of Word before Word is closed. I can pop up interesting (irritating?) messages from the various Word events but have thusfar been unsuccessful in wrestling control back to VFP.

One idea that comes to mind is to use the windows messages that Word generates when the user tries to print, save or close word. In most cases the user should receive a message like "Do you want to save the changes..." or the "Print" dialog.

You could check in short intervals the existence of such windows, and then when you identity a window you could programmatically "press" the cancel button from VFP (or send an ESCAPE), so the user does not get a chance to confirm the dialogs. It seems to be clumsy, but the only idea until now that comes into my mind.