thanks john.

but i think i am going to use the background paramater for the printout
method
i will definately keep this in mind. it may help me in the future!

thanks. and sorry to waste your time

daniel

Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:50:44 -0400
From: John Stendor <john.stendor@c...>
Subject: Re: setting delays

You might want to try testing the print status versus having a 3 minutes
wait.

Here is a snippet of how to test the Print status

   Do While True

      lEnd = Timer

      If Not oWord.Application.BackgroundPrintingStatus > 0 Then

            	'*************************************************
	' Put a pause here to let the printer catch up before
        ' dropping the WORD print object ...
        ' *************************************************

       	Exit Do
     End If


    Sleep 500

   Loop

HTH.




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