>>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.

I dislike that answer so much I wrote a KB with an alternative. :-) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q241/9/42.asp