Ernie,
Strange that it worked for me but not for you - You WERE working with Word 97 you said. However, I see you DID get a solution, and I've kept the new technique also in case my method suddenly stops working.

Barbara

>Barbara -
>Thank you for your reply. I am pretty sure I tried that syntax before. However that may be, I copied your code directly. Sad to say, it produced the same result (type mismatch).
>
>Could this be a version problem? I do not have VFP 5.0a.