>I have finally got Word to run my mail merge perfectly in the backround out of VFP. Is there a way to tell when Word is finished printing? I am using a timeout loop now but I don't really trust it.
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>Many thanks in advance.

There's a property of the word object that you can test.

Very simply

DO WHILE loWord.BackgroundPrintingStatus <> 0
? "Waiting"
ENDDO