Thanks for the advice - I have been using word for years, but I have just recently started using excel and I really like the tabbed pages setup and found myself wishing that I could have some of those tabs open to word documents. I already have the associated word documents but it would be great if they were right there in excel on available tabs. Your suggestion of using links might do the trick - just put a link in an excel page to the associated word doc - I'll try that... cheers!