You can open the word document thru code and then close it
Set oWD = Word.documents.open("c:\sample.doc")
oWD.Content.Copy
' Do the pasting operations
oWD.close SaveChanges:=False
Hope this works out
If you do not want to open Word etc, I think, you can try out reading the file in binary more and transferring the contents
Cheers
Shasur
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