>Thank you very much Dragan. Now I'm really scared of automation... as I should have been to start with ;-)

I've learned, on my own self, that it's not good for your hair, teeth and nerves.
Ah, did I forget the phantom dialogs that appear behind every other window, don't appear on the taskbar, and you can access them only by alt-tabbing, if you remember to try that. Until then, the app plays dead, Word is invisible, the dialog is also kind of invisible behind all those other windows, and waits patiently for you to return focus to it and click ok or cancel.

That particular phantom took a few days to catch, and several more days to avoid. Not fix, avoid. Can't be fixed, as it's not exposed through COM.