Tim,

Thanks for the feedback. I can see that using WordHelper is going to have a lot of benefits encapsulating series of Word steps into a callable unit.

>That is exactly what I have done. I found that there were some things I wanted to do, over and over. even if they were one line of VBA, a clean wrapper could be written. If I REALLY need to access the 'Word.application' directly, I have to type the oWord.oInstance reference. Most of the time, I am hitting the same combination of functions repeatedly, so I write a wrapper method.