Ahhhh ... works a charm ... very nice and fast too !

Moving forward, in terms of automating VBA and getting rid of external dependencies, this is the closest we've ever come (to my knowledge) to doing this, and that was automate the installation of vb macros into Microsoft word, and it uses the (argh) old OLE functions which are brutal, but its a start ... check it out ... even if your not familiar with the old functions, it shouldn't be too hard for you to figure out ... specifically, check out the 11th post ...

Loading a macro from one template to another

It's a start ...

-Shawn

[ 19 December 2001: Message edited by: Shawn ]