>Hi John,
>Thanx for still thinking about this. Please direct me to a reference for wscript.shell. I never used it or saw it in print. I won't be near vfp today but I look forward to playing aroung with this solution. I will update you on Wednesday. Please tell me what FWIW means..:)
>
>Regars,
>Dr. G. (Neil)
>
>>Neil
>>
>>FWIW, and since I am asking a question here too, there is another way that does not require polling etc:
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>>loshell=CREATEOBJECT("WScript.Shell")
>>loshell.run("myfilename.doc",3,.t.)
>>*---stops here until Word is closed
>>messagebox("You closed word!")
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>>Regards
>>
>>JR