I've used Andrew's suggestion of WScript.Run and it works great. Just what I wanted. The software is being released soon and requires minimum P3 so they're happy to put W98/NT4+Opt as minimum platform.

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>The only altrernatives open to you are a third party commerical add-in, or to use the ShellExecuteEx() API call to laucnh the document, and reutrns a real process handle - you could use API_APPRUN as a template for waiting on completion.
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>If all you need is to launch an executable and wait on completion, you can download and use API_APPRUN from here on UT, which gives just that kind of capability, but it requires an executable command line, not a document name.
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