Word.Basic and RichText

Is there a way to put Rich Text formatted text into Word.Basic creation which will keep the RTF formats so I can spell check the text, select it and then put it back into the rich text box? here's my code currently which works, but it uses copy and paste and I was trying to see if there was a way around using them. I tried to do .Insert strTextToVerify instead of pasting the string fromt he clipboard but it pasted the actually formatting as part of the string, which screws up the spell checker.
here's what i got so far, though i'd rather not be using copy and paste.

VB Code:

Private Function SpellCheck(ByVal strTextToVerify As String) As String 
    'This function uses word to spell check the passed string 
 
Dim sNewText As String 
Dim oWord As Object 
 
Set oWord = CreateObject("Word.Basic") 
    
Clipboard.Clear 
     
With oWord 
     .AppShow 
    .FileNew 
     Clipboard.SetText strTextToVerify, vbCFRTF 
    .EditPaste 
    .ToolsSpelling 
    .EditSelectAll 
    .EditCopy 
    sNewText = Clipboard.GetText(vbCFRTF) 
    oWord.FileClose 2 
    oWord.FileExit 
End With