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That does it. Perfect. Thanks. To assemble the pieces, then, this is the whole script to open 3 Word documents without getting Normal.dot messages. On Error Resume Next Set objWord = GetObject(, "Word.Application") If Err.Number <> 0 Then Err.Clear Set objWord =...

PHV, I don't follow what all that does, but it is an improvement. The only drawback is that it opens the documents as minimized. I have to look for them in the taskbar. Do you know how to open them completely?

Same thing.

GrimR, This was worth trying. But no cigar, yet. I tried your example, exactly as you wrote it. ' Open these Word documents.. Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application") objWord.Visible = True objWord.Documents.Open "C:\Testing\Test1.DOC" objWord.Documents.Open "C:\Testing\Test2.DOC"...

Perhaps. This happens if another Word doc is open. It doesn't matter how it got openned. Might have been clicked on, rather than openned in a script. At any rate, any open Word doc has a handle on Normal.Dot which is some sort of a Microsofty template thingy. You can open as many as you...

The standard vbscript suggestion for opening a Word doc (in fact one of the FAQs on this forum suggests this) is something like this: dim wapp dim wWord dim Visible set wApp = createobject("Word.application") wApp.visible = true set wWord = wApp.Documents.Open...