I have a copy of the Office VBA programmer's guide, but it has yet to be as helpful as the objet browser.

>Erik,
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>Well I used used a big wad of my MVP stuff to order some books on Word/Excel automation hopefully they'll be handy for finding this kind of stuff.
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>>David- that is exactly what Word's BackGroundPrinting option does. This can be set with an OLE command before the print command, and reset afterwards.