I am not a VBA programmer but by recording macros and doing a little
research in Knowledge Base on Microsoft.com, I have managed to do the
following

Open an Excel 2000 spread sheet with the master file of names, dates &
places using a macro
Using the same macro to open Word 2000 and calling a macro in Word that
inserts names, dates, places from the Excelfile into a form letter in
Word.
Then the macro in Word 2000 sends the letter to print.
Control returns to Excel and the macro closes the Word Application and
document, ie,
WordApp.Quit savechanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
Set WordApp = Nothing

Problem is, macro is faster than the print command and with the Printer
Status Box open, I see the document spooling, then it disappears
(result=no printed page) as control comes from the Word macro back to
the Excel macro and Word closes.

I have monkeyed around with DoEvents and with a timer but I have not
come up with anything very clean.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Anasazi Andy

Word is probably doing a background print. Set it to do a foreground print.

Tools=Options in Word I would guess (and probably can be done in code as
well)

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


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I am not a VBA programmer but by recording macros and doing a little
research in Knowledge Base on Microsoft.com, I have managed to do the
following

Open an Excel 2000 spread sheet with the master file of names, dates &
places using a macro
Using the same macro to open Word 2000 and calling a macro in Word that
inserts names, dates, places from the Excelfile into a form letter in
Word.
Then the macro in Word 2000 sends the letter to print.
Control returns to Excel and the macro closes the Word Application and
document, ie,
WordApp.Quit savechanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
Set WordApp = Nothing

Problem is, macro is faster than the print command and with the Printer
Status Box open, I see the document spooling, then it disappears
(result=no printed page) as control comes from the Word macro back to
the Excel macro and Word closes.

I have monkeyed around with DoEvents and with a timer but I have not
come up with anything very clean.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Anasazi Andy