You're right, I poorly misconstructed what I'm looking for. I am trying to give the variable a value so that I can place it in new paragraphs that I'm generating that have "xxxx" within them (where I want that variable to be). I'm trying to replace the xxxx with the variable instead of just manually copying and pasting it from the original paragraph. Is that clearer?

So if the word I want is "either "Florida" or "California", and it always generates in between two words (Let's just say "of" and "State", but both are unique to the document), I want to then have my macro take whichever state it is and replace "xxxx"throughout my document with it.