I am implementing the Merge Print Database Records in External Word Processor (as found in the Programming guide). Instead of running one @shell command and i would like to run several of them.  My question is if my batch file is as follows from the example and in my code I have three calls to @shell (one after another), should Word not open one of the merge file at a time? (ie., it does not open the next merge document until I close the previous one)

thanx a ton