Thanks, Hank. I believe tx text control was tried but ran into issues replicating Word's rich VBA functionality and custom toolbar/menu. There also was an issue with customers specifying Word... but that was years ago when I was still involved in such things!
"... They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us." -- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1