>I am using the Find method to locate a specific string of text in a Word doc. The Execute() is returning TRUE, so now I want an object reference to that. I am trying oRange = oWord.Selection which does return an object reference.

If you have a Range to start with and call its Find.Execute method, after the search, the Range has been changed to the found text.

IF oRange.Find.Execute()
   * oRange now points to the matching text
ENDIF

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