quieting Word down during VBA execution 1

[RobBroekhuis]

I'm used to Excel's VBA, where an

application.screenupdating=false

will nicely hide any screen activity from the user. This doesn't seem to work as well with Word - it hides the in-document manipulations, but not any activity of the scrollbar or document switching on the taskbar, to a very distracting effect (and I'm sure it slows execution down).
My application pulls in many text files (each opened as a new document) and assembles them into one large document. So there is lots of switching going on. Any way to keep Word quiet?
Rob

 

[StewartJ]

Application.Visible = False

 

[dsi]

Another method would be to set the WindowState to minimized so that the Word application it is still accessible from the task bar:

Application.WindowState = wdWindowStateMinimize

 

[RobBroekhuis]

Dsi,
Yes, that's what I tried first. But the taskbar still bounces around a lot, since I'm constantly opening and closing files. On the other hand, the application.visible method causes an almost eerie silence on my PC. I wish I could just have Word sitting there with an hourglass pointer without any screen activity.
Rob