I think everybody here seem to misjudge Word in completely the wrong measure. Word has more functions (over 10 000) than maybe Excel and Access together! It is only because the majority uses 2.5 % of the power of Word (that is: it stays unknown to the majority according to a recent study) that the echo here is rather meagre. I think a VBA word forum is VERY legitimate when one consider only the very high level of sophistication of this program.