Yes it was because Word was giving me message boxes about my data source before Word was visible. I solved the problem by making Word visible before opening or adding the document. So Word was visible during the message boxes. This works for my situation.

I use Word 97

Brenda

>I have encountered the no menu no toolbars in Word 2000 automation, also. From >reading Woody's Office Watch, I think this is a bug that occurs when an error, >like "file does not exist", happens during processing. I have robustly coded, >so I minimize processing errors.