>Cetin,
>
>you certainly illuminated the problem!!
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>Trying the add actually did create a connection object that returned the name (Document1).
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>That means the oDocument.GetObject("C;\My Documents\I247a.doc") is not really working as it should although it does return an object.
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>Tried oWord.Documents.open("C:\My Documents\I247a.doc") also and that doesn't work. So I'm stuck with a loading issue. Changed directories to avoid blank spaces (put it in a directory called "Downloads" and still no go. Can work on the document in word and save and everything but not load via automation. Wish you had a solution for that!!

Don't know what's your oWord object, I'm usually creating it as
This.oword= Createobject("Word.Application")
and then
This.oword.documents.Open(This.cdocfilename)
where this.cDocFileName is a full path to the file. The other way is to have oDoc=getobject(cFullPathToDoc). I think you've tried wrong combinations of these.