understood,

The system is using a SQL database as the back end. Also we are not doing a traditional Mail Merge. The system opens the document then systematicaly goes through each bookmark in the document and replaces the text with the value required then makes it visible to the user and closes out the instances. We did this as mail merge has some funky behavior and we wanted our documents to be completly seperated from the database when created.

I will look through again but all of the instances are set to close out.
So in the short term im still left with the need to cure the symptom and close the processes in code till i can fix what is leaving them open. Any suggestions on that ?

essentialy to use an example, i know that i need to take my patient to the hospitol but we don't know where the hospitol is or how far away it is so i need to apply imediate first aid to stem the bleeding until i can get them there....