I'm hoping to PREVENT him from closing Word.

In your handler class that implements the ApplicationEvents2 interface:

PROCEDURE ApplicationEvents2_DocumentBeforeClose( toDoc AS VARIANT, tlCancel AS LOGICAL) AS VOID
  IF NOT This.lOk2CloseWord
    tlCancel = .T.
  ENDIF 	
ENDPROC

You have to set the lOK2CloseWord flag to .T. right before you call its Quit() method. You can get rid of all the other flags in my sample code in WordWrapper.prg.