Dr. Nitro - first, thanks for your response.

I tried AppActivate/SendKeys before but it's just too fickle - it works maybe 1 in 10 times. I'm not sophisticated enough to make it work.

I shied away from your suggestion to use CreateObject because I'll be pasting thousands of times - the idea of so many word documents was too scary.

So instead I'm working on your suggestion to use GetObject but Extra doesn't seem to be using it: the macro compiles ok, and the code runs without incident, but my GetObject variable has no value. Needless to say, none of my commands referencing the object variable work. I'm kind of at a loss here - any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks