That seems to work perfect!! thank you for all the help, I think this might be all I need, but I will be sure to let you know if I need any further help! I even managed to write my own macros to turn on or off the table borders just in case they would want to manually edit the document (yes I know that is basic, but I feel like I'm picking up a lot from working through your code, so thank you!).

I appreciate all the help over the last few weeks, thank you so much!
Shane