>That's very interesting, do you know why?

Because Word doesn't have to do the screen refreshes caused by your changes. At least, that's my sense of it.


>Also if you do turn it off and an error occurs are you just making it visible in your error routine?

For the automation code I'm writing, if an error occurs, I want to handle it behind the scenes, not present it to the user in Word, so making Word visible at that point wouldn't make sense for me. But you certainly could.

Tamar