In the application that i am working on i have to use office to open up a
series of word documents and in turn print each of these documents to a
virtual printer to output the files to PDF format.  The problem is that
sometimes there may be an issue with the document that would stop the file
from opening e.g. corrupt template.

if using
dim objPDFWord As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application
objPDFWord = New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application

Is it possible to retrieve the process ID of the newly created word object?
The reason i need this is so if word fails to open a file and execution
doesnt return back to the current thread, we can use as final failsafe the
System.Diagnostics.Process methods to distroy that particular instance of
word.

Thanks in advance