Hiding Activated Window Application

[Gary]

I have posted this on the Access VBA Newgroup, and a MVP suggested this
newgroup.

I use a form with an bound OLE object to activate an embeded Visio Drawing.
These drawings are embed in a table OLE Object. I am using Access 2000 with
xp sp2+ os.

I use VBA code to cycle through a table and for each Visio Object, I open it
by using the Activate and a Verb = 2. This opens up a Visio Access Windows
application and then I make the changes and close. The process repeats.

I need help in hiding all of this from being displayed on my screen. I
tried hiding the Visio Windows using the api ShowWindow trying hiding it, but
it doesn't work. I have already made the Access form hiden, but the Visio
application keeps poping up as I activate.

Is there a means of updating the Visio Layers differently than what I am
doing???

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Gary