Thanks Hugo, but I cannot use windows scripting and I am running the associated .xfdf, not the .pdf. If I open the .pdf directly, the form itself will open and will not be populated with the data in the .xfdf file.
>>I tried copying the .xfdf file to an .exe and createprocess attempts to run it so that must be it...
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>>Is there any other way to run an app and wait for it to close that will use file association and not require the app to be an '.exe' file?
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>Tracy, try
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>loWshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
>loWshShell.Run('MyDocument.pdf', 1, .t.)
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>Hugo
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