"Phantom" copy of WINWORD.EXE

[Bob]

I am running Windows XP Pro with SP1 and Office XP.
When I start OUTLOOK, there is also a copy of WINWORD that gets started.
When I close OUTLOOK, the WINWORD continues to exist.

This becomes a problem when I run the VB program I have written which
generates WORD documents. If there is an existing copy of WinWord running,
then I ge all sorts of strange errors including putting text into a
previously open document. I have to ensure that there is no other copy of
WINWORD running before executing my program.

Has anyone else noticed this phantom execution of WINWORD on their systems?

How I can determine at runtime that there is no copy of WINWORD already
running?

Thanks for any insights

Bob

 

[Jonathan West]

Hi Bob,

This sounds like Word is being used as the message editor in Outlook.

To check, you can iterate through the Tasks collection and see if there is a
task whose name includes "Microsoft Word".