Hi John,

Check out Cetin's fix. Cetin has consistently helped me with WORD automation. Once again he has come to all of our rescue. Thanx for your input

Regards,
Neil

>Hi Neil,
>
>I thought we were clear that the wait loop is what is causing your problem. You've got to get rid of it.
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>>Oops... A little bit more investigation reveals that your solution is not really fixing the problem for me. You see, when I automate WORD and go into the wait loop, a test on thisform.Gotfocus() will always return true. Any other thoughts? I wonder if WORD has a property that tells me it is in a modal state.