Microsoft KB Archive/241942

= How To Prevent Word Printing Error with BackgroundPrintingStatus Property =

Article ID: 241942

Article Last Modified on 7/1/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

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SUMMARY
When using OLE Automation to Microsoft Word 2000 or Microsoft Word 97 for Windows SR-1 or higher that prints a file, and then releases, closes, or quits the Word object, the following warning message might appear:

Word is currently printing. Quitting Word will cancel all pending print jobs. Do you want to quit Word?

The BackgroundPrintingStatus property of the Word.Application object returns the number of jobs in Word's Background Printing queue. By checking the value of this property, you can avoid the error message without disabling Background Printing.



MORE INFORMATION
The following sample code shows one way to use this property: oWord = CREATEOBJECT('Word.Application') WITH oWord .Documents.Add .Visible = .T.  .Selection.InsertAfter("Mark, why does that crate have air holes?") .PrintOut DO WHILE .BackgroundPrintingStatus > 0 DOEVENTS       && Make sure you leave the OS enough time to update && the property *!* =INKEY(.1)   && Use INKEY if you're running under VFP 3.0 ENDDO .Application.Quit(0) && Quit, don't save and don't prompt ENDwith

