>Tamar,
>I tried
>WAIT TIMEOUT 30
>but it did not help.
>May be there is a way to catch a moment when
>loExcel.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(cName)
>really done.
>Thanks
>Helen

30 seconds should be plenty, so I don't think it's timing. I haven't looked it up, but I suspect that, like Word, Excel prints in the background by default, and you should be able to find a setting to tell it not to return control until it's done printing (sending to the printer).

Tamar