>Probably could be omitted specifying the second parameter wdOpenFormat but the question is:
>Why you get the dialog and I don't? (my settings are all set to EN-US).
>Cetin
good question. Since I just installed office 2003 everything should be set to MS defaults.

Don't waste anymore time over it. Thanks for all your effort. I think I will stick with word as the data holder.

It's just strange that with everything going XML this is not an option.

Peter