ummm...I can't duplicate your error. I'm kind of at a loss, unless it has to do with a ms-word version issue.

I lied about my ms-word version...I'm using Word 97-sr1. (I forgot that I was on my work pc...they buy me visual studio 6.0 enterprise, and then give me ms-office 97. Go figure...)

I'll try it on word 2k tonight...maybe the document object model has changed. (You might check and make sure that the documents.open method hasn't changed. From the VBA Editor window, hit F2 to open the object browser. Select the Documents collection in the left pane, and the open method from the right pane, right click and choose help. It should give you all of the syntax for the statement. Make sure that it returns a document object, and that there is only one required parameter.)