>>oWd.Selection.Range.SetRange(owd.selection.range.end, owd.selection.range.end)
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>>pretty much selects the point after the last character. Though I'm not quite sure that this works, because it's still eating my last paragraph. Maybe it needs another .Select at the end of the line - next thing to try.
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>>Nope, doesn't do anything. This does:
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>>owd.selection.range.characters(owd.Selection.Range.Characters.Count).Select
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>>selects the last character. As close to nothing as it gets. The .selection.range.start and .end seem to be read only - no error if I try to change them, but no effect either.
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>Work on Range, not Selection (always). For this problem, they the Collapse method.

Thanks - this helped. The .collapse() is among the most unintuitive names, I'd never guess what it does :).