>Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't really help as I can't find a sensible example of bringwindowtotop whereby it can be applied to an already instantiated version of Winword.exe.
try:
oWord = CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")
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DECLARE Long BringWindowToTop In Win32API Long
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BringWindowToTop(oWord.Hwnd)
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Peter Cortiel