Della,

With your guidance, I have more info about the flashing behavior.
I took out all the .Visible's and .Windowstate's except at the end.

The oTemp word shows after the 1st doc' is .Closed. And when Foxpro code stops to pop a dialog asking for info. Which is really bad, Foxpro is waiting for the user to press ok, while the user is looking at a full screen, empty, word session.

My first append ask whether I am taking the wrong approach.
Does anyone have a better idea how I can update a user selected set of doc's and end with one doc for the user to edit/print?

Thanks for your help,
Carol Dewar
Magram Computer Services