Dear Cetin:

Thank you very much for your valuable help. Your answer was on the mark. I am sorry that I have not responded earlier to your feedback, because this task is still in progress. When I am done I will provide you with the code that I used which is largely based on your code.

In the meantime I am having a particular difficulty in clearing the “windord.exe” from memory. I have tried numerous methods to no avail such as.

Release all like o*
OForm=null

Any ideas?

By the way I am not Turkish. All my old relatives spoke Turkish in Lebanon and they still speak about the Turkish era.