>Try the following : copied from a Word macro.

With Options
>   .AllowFastSave = False
>   .BackgroundSave = False

>
While the FastSave option does appear to save time in large or complex documents, the Help file indicates that it's not good practice to always save with FastSaves (it saves a list of changes separately from your stored work). Allowing background saves won't free up the file by the OS any quicker than foreground saves -- this is needed because the ERASE command is failing.

IAC, I tried these, and, on my machine, they didn't help. In my other message to David, I think the timing issue may resolve itself when doing an explicit Document.Close(), followed by an Application.Quit().

- della