>The problems I am having are:
> oTemp keeps flashing, showing the updating. And when I prompt for user input, all the user sees is oTemp fullscreen with no doc. open.
> oAll shows with no menubar and no toolbars. (I bandaged that by taking out the first Visible = .f.)

Can you pare down your code and give us a sample? I haven't seen this behavior, so I can't offer any advice without seeing the code, or being able to reproduce it.

One flag to me is setting Visible to .F.; you should only need to set it to .T. at the end. Some of the other Office servers can't be set to Visible = .F. once they're made visible, and since they default to .F. (using CreateObj("Word.Application")), you needn't worry until the end. But there's always more than one solution...can you post the code?

- della Martin