>Friends:
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>Is there a property or collection in Word that I can interogate to see whether it is OK to Quit Word via Automation?
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>I have a requirement to completely shutdown Word from VFP but sometimes, it hasn't finished printing. I would like to detect this sort of activity before I issue "oWord.Application.Quit()".
If you are using oWord.PrintOut() then you should pass in .F. as the first parameter - disable BackGround printing, which is probably enabled by default. Control will not return to VFP until printing is finished.
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