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Message: [QUOTE="Jay Freedman, post: 12399387"] This is just a guess, since I have no way of knowing exactly what your other application is doing. There is a Windows function (FindWindow, [URL]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633499.aspx[/URL]) that programs can use to find a particular application window. That function depends on knowing the title of the desired window (that is, the text that appears in the title bar at the top of the window). Probably your application is looking for a window whose title is the name of the merge document followed by a space character and the string "- Microsoft Word". At least in the case of HSE, the title also includes the "for noncommercial use" phrase, and that is probably causing the Windows function to respond that the desired window doesn't exist. I don't know what you'd see in "certain combinations of Windows Vista and Office 2007 Standard", but it may be a similar problem of unexpected text in the window title. I doubt that there's any difference in functionality among the Word versions that has any bearing on this problem. As you noted, the merge actually is performed. The solution will depend on the application being modified to take these variations in the window title into account. If it can't find the window by looking for the most usual title, it then needs to look for the other possible ones. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. [/QUOTE]

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