HOWTO: Prevent Word Printing Error with BackgroundPrintingStatus Property

ID: Q241942

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b, 5.0, 5.0a, 6.0
Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
Microsoft Word 2000

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

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the article number about suppressing errors in Word below to view the article about suppressing errors in Word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q170393 HOWTO: Prevent Word Printing Error with OLE Automation

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbAutomation kbVFp300b kbVFp500 kbVFp500a kbVFp600 kbGrpFox kbDSupport
Version : WINDOWS:2000,3.0,3.0b,5.0,5.0a,6.0,97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto