Without knowing which code line was highlighted when the error occurred, it's impossible to comment on why it's happening. Furthermore, with my code, it was assumed the document had already been saved. Your process suggests you're maybe not doing that, in which case the macro will fail. And no, my code doesn't select anything. However, it's possible you'll get an error if there's are .pa strings with nothing else before/after them. I've updated the code to handle that.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]