Hi Victoria,
>I had tried closing Word after use, but a message box pops up and say, "not done printing, close anyway?" This meant that the user either kept it open or closed before the printing was done.
>
>Do you have a suggestion on how I can tell when the Word printing has been completed so that I can close the app?

Ok, the solution is in this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q241/9/42.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0

If it were myself doing this,after executing Words print method, I would implement a timer that fires every second with this code:

PROCEDURE Timer1_Timer()
  DoEvents()
  IF oWord.BackgroundPrintingStatus = 0
    This.enabled = .f.
    oWord.Quit()
    This.destroy()
  ENDIF
ENDPROC

This way, your program (and ultimately the user) doesnt have to wait until Word is through printing to continue.

Jon