>I'm not yet sure what to do to wait until the user has completed interaction, but this should work. There is probably a more correct way, and if anyone else has any input on this I'd appreciate it...
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>Thanks and good luck John

Rob,

This works great for my needs:

oWord = CREATEOBJ("Word.Basic")
oWord.FileOpen(mdoc)
oWord.AppMaximize()
wait ""
release oWord

The wait"" is kind of lame, but without it, the prg continues and closes Word (release oWord) without letting me edit my doc. I'll probably replace the wait "" with a wait window or a =messagebox() thing but basically I got it. Thanx!

John Morga