>>>Um... versions of Word for which this should work are probably 2007 and later, but I can't know if there are still a few holdouts with 2003 or older.
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>>Well I didn't put much hope in this one, so just to close it, I'll say that "make Word visible minimized" works well enough.
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>Did you set Application.DisplayAlerts = .F.

Yes, about eight years ago. Read the rest of this thread, I explained when and why that doesn't work.

> and then enclose the lines that woud cause the error within a TRY CATCH structure?

In the end yes (to cover some other cases), but there was no error in this case. Just a dialog which pops up invisibly.