>from your code it cannot be seen whether you employ early or late binding.
>Still, .25 seem extremely slow even for late binding. Use early binding to avoid COM "discovering" on every loop the type of the object.
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>If you expect a long list of errors, it *might* be faster to gather them inside word via script and just have the result marshal across the comm barrier - depends on the internal structure of word and the speed of scripting. But perhaps worth a test.

Could you elaborate more on this approach? Any code sample?