Have a lot of automation with Word in my application. I am using George Tasker's is_run32() procedure to see if Word is running, if not, I issue Oword=create("Word.Application"). Works fine for the most part, but at some point if the users close Word themselves, the application thinks it's still open because it is still listed as 'Winword'. (I've been testing all different situations and do a Ctrl, Alt, Del to see the list of running applications, sure enough, when I get an error, Winword is listed). The error comes after is_run32() is run and it Thinks that Microsoft Word is running and tries to work in the 'With OWord Endwith' commands. Word is not running, but does show up in the tasks list. Any ideas?