John, Cetin,

Both good ideas. I had thought of using the ADO approach, but was resisting it because of all the work involved in re-programming a working app. And, truth be told, because I don't really know how. Guess it's time I learned. Maybe it would save me the pain of dealing with MS's rather cavalier approach to ODBC drivers.

Just off the top of my head can't think of a quick and dirty VBA way (like Insert Database) to get an ADO record set into a Word table with associated table formatting. Suggestions? Cetin, your idea would resolve that issue; I thing I'll try it.

Thanks, guys.