>I prepare a table in Excel within a Using () statement. At the end I UsedRange.Copy() to what I understand is the clipboard. Then I Selection.PasteExcelTable in a Word document.
>I get an COM Exception "command failed".
>When I activate the word document and press Ctrl+V the table gets copied.
>I wonder if that has something to do with the fact that maybe I must reactivate the Word document in code.
>The word document gets created also within a Using() statement. I execute the Excel procedure from within the Using(Word) statement.
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>I tried the Activate method of the Word.Application object and also when I wait for 5 seconds after the Activate().

Actual code might be useful......