jah :) .. Word has a direct PrintOut method - IE doesn't allow for such directly ( or so says MSDN ) so you have to use the ExecWB function ..

after tinkering around a bit i was able to Almost get it to work using the following code :

$IE->ExecWB( 23, 1 );
sleep ( 1 );
$IE->ExecWB( 6, 1, 1 );
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thanks to you both for your replies! .. i'll try the ( 6, 2 ) and see if that bears any fruit :)