> Your Python script should be more-or-less doing what Mario 
> posted.  You
> treat Word as a component, that's the point of COM.

Probably, but I never mastered (or even looked into) COM. I just start
(from Python) a 'dos' command start starts word with the file and a
macro that prints the current document and exits. Probably dirty, but
simple for me and it does the job. The opening and closing of word
windows is a minor nuisance, but not a real problem.

> Relying on a macro
> within the Word doc itself (or as an add-in) is usually a bad 
> way to do it.

I agree about an internal macro (if it autostarts you would not be able
to view/edit the document any more!) but I don't see why an external
macro would be a bad way to do it?

> have "PrintAndMove.vbs c:\current\file.doc c:\archive\"; the 
> .vbs picks up
> the file to be printed, and the dir to move it to afterwards.

Possible, but I do everything in Python unless there are pressing
reasons to do otherwise. So the moving is done in Python, no problem
with that.

Wouter van Ooijen

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