It remembers the windowstate when document was closed in the previous session.
Force it like oWord.Windowstate=1 (or 0)

>I have a very simple instantiation of Word in my app like below:
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>oWord = createobject('Word.Application')
>oWord.Documents.Open(mclettername)
>oWord.Visible = .T.
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>When I run this, Word opens maximized on top of my app, but for a client word opens minimized on the status bar.
>
>Any ideas on why?