Hi John,

> My application will start automate ot createobject("word.application) when start up. While the process of automating, my animation in my splash screen is hang. It only work after finish automating process. Any ways to solve it?

VFP timer don't always fire, in fact, the only time they fire reliable is when your application is in a read events state.

Can you use some sort of animation ActiveX control for your splash screen, for example a GIF viewer or AVI player?

How does your automation code look like? Is it VFP code that issues a series of calls to Word? In that case you can try to insert DOEVENTS in that code. David Frankenbach has some code on his web site that explains DOEVENTS more in details and provides some work arounds to avoid slowing down your application.

Christof