John,

so there's no .exe I can create a shortcut to and get there without actually going through Word?

>>Is there any way to just launch the VBA program itself without going into Word, Tools, Macros, VB Editor?
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>I found vbe.dll which is buried under the common folder about three levels. It apparently gets called when you start Word, so you can do alt+f11 in Word and it will bring it up.