Word is busy

[Craftor]

My program creates an instance of Word in order to print out an attachment through CDO. I get an error message back just after the line of code to create the instance of Word (set obj = CreateObject("Word.Application.9&quot. The error states: "Automation error. The message filter indicates that the application is busy". As far as I can tell, Word is not running before this line of code. This error is preventing my document from even being opened.

ANY help, please, is needed URGENTLY!!

 

[dsi]

Try:

Set wdObj = CreateObject("Word.Application")

or

Dim wdApp As Word.Application
Set wdApp = New Word.Application
wdApp.Visible = True

 

[Craftor]

It is still giving the same problem - even if I just start a new project and just try to open an instance of word by itself!!!!!! Any thoughts PLEASE help!!!!

 

[dsi]

Check Task Manager to see if winword.exe is running in the background. I know that Outlook fires up an instance of Word, assuming you use it as your e-mail template. Even if it is running, it should not cause any problems. I have never seen this problem before. What version of Word/Windows are you using?

 

[Craftor]

It is an NT4 Workstation with Microsoft Word 2000 running. Have closed all instances of Winword.exe using the Task Manager and it STILL comes up with that error message!!