>  I'm not a heavy windows user, but I had the impression that automating
> stuff
> like this in windows takes over the desktop/focus and makes the computer
> unusable for anything else while it's running. I'd definitely find it more
> interesting
> if that stuff can run in the background.
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It can run in the background.  For the office apps, once you instantiate the
application object (word, excel, etc), you just need to set its Visible
property to false, and no windows popup anywhere or take the focus away from
what you're doing.  In the particular script I posted, Visible is set to true,
but you can set it to false.

-Mario

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