Okay, awesome. This is great followup information.

I am in fact writing from an Access webbrowser control to word. This functionality is fine - VBA.

It happens that after I tested how this works (thanks to your response) I discovered that I would have to assign the classes to each paragraph in the html before importing - which I didn't think about until after the fact.

My guess is that I will have to do some string manipulation to find and replace <p> tags with <P Class="msoBodyText">Ect...</p>". although I think there's a way to change attributes... but not yet sure where this rabbit hole will go.

In any case, this info you've given is very valuable, and much appreciated. Thanks tons!