>>Can you trap this error with your regular error handler?
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>>Joe
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>
>Actually, I did a bit more research after posting and found a thread from
>Jan. 11, 1999, 'How to detect a dead object'. This is one of those that a
>regular error handler doesn't work well on. Also, TYPE("owordobj") returns "O" even if the Word server was killed, and ISNULL doesn't work either.
>
>Jim Booth's solution is to check a known property of the object and this works great. TYPE("owordobj.name") = "C" returns .t. if the word server is still alive, and false if it was killed or otherwise died . This works for references to Word docs too.
>D. Frankenbach suggested trapping the error in the error method of the class, and Hacker's Guide has an example. In the error method, you can check for
>nError = 1427 or 1429 which are Ole errors, and handle things from there.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rod Poujade
>Montreal, Canada

Also, now with VFPCOM, oyu can create a VFP object and bind it's events to the word object. Word only exposes 2 events, but lucky for you, one of them is close. So you can now create a class that fires your code when the user quits...