>But now, I don't know how to ask for user confirmation. Do you happen to know what are the Word VBA commands to do that? I would need to (a) show a confirmation dialog, similar to MessageBox() in VFP, and get a return value for the button pressed, and (b) conditionally interrupit the macro (similar to CANCEL or RETURN in VFP).

I'm out of my element there, but I believe VBA has a MsgBox function. If your environment (macro editor?) has Intellisense, you can probably grok the interface to it by just typing the word and a space.

-- Randy