Thanks Macropod but after entering the code into the Visual Basic window and running it, it takes me to each file and asks for the password; remember that when I go to a file normally I have to enter the password twice: first to open the file and then again to modify. So it is eliminating one password entry but not the other.

Also now when I open any Word document I get a window 'The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK, and then close open dialog boxes to continue'. This doesn't happen if I open a blank doc using a link to the winword.exe file.

Any thoughts?

Thanks again, from a cold Hampshire in the UK