>But that's not the answer I wanted :-)
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>It does go by quickly--perhaps half a second at most--way too quickly to read so no information will ever be gleaned from it. It's just an unsightly flash--well, a few dozen flashes when doing a batch print. I hope I don't get sued for causing someone's seizure! What Einstein thought up this addition to a totally automated print routine? Oh well, I suppose I could create some bigger, more intrusive dialog to cover it up :-)
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>Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

I wish I had a better answer for myself as well, but no such luck. It seems in this universe the manufacturer of Word employs a special brand of genius.

I'm just lucky that my printing is to .ps then to .pdf and that's supposed to be an overnight batch, so nobody will see the stupid dialog. No such luck for you, eh? But maybe you can do a similar thing, just queue the print request to a dedicated machine which will run one instance of Word which would print it all. Such things have been done many times - and nobody need to ever look at that machine's monitor.