Hi Graham,

Thank you for this; it will do what I want. Yes I'm getting the office as a string.

It was the document.add method that I wasn't aware of. I've just a done test where I added a new document and then programmatically added text to it.

The VBA userform is no longer visible as the new document has focus, but since the process is effectively complete once the new document has been created, I can live with that.

Many thanks again,
Alan