Hi!

I see this thread is not answered for a long time, so I would like to give you some suggestions, despite I do not know the exact approach.

First of all, if you want this just to restrict users editing of the document after preview, make the DOC file created by Word read-only, than open it in Word again and preview.

If you wand to close word immediately after preview closed... Well, you than need to find a way HOW distinguish from VFP the states of the Word to see if it is in preview mode or it is just in document editing state. I don't know how. However, if preview cuses modal state in the OLE Automation, than returning control to VFP is a sign of finishing of the preview mode and you can close the document from VFP. If this cause no modal state, than you require to check Word state in a loop and see if Word is still in preview mode...

Good luck!

>From VFP, we are using Word automation to preview a document. Once we open the document, we update some fields in the Word document and issue the preview after. Is there a way to do the same but to restrict the Word process to the preview only? Because, as soon as the user closes the preview, he enters in the Word document.