Excellent, you are the horse whisperer of word automation. Thank you so much again. It works like a charm and of course your recommendations were spot on. I tried making that code more efficient for at least 2 hours. It wasn't until you suggested moving GetObject(, "word.application") from the within the loop statement, so obvious but I just never made that connection.

Your were right, option explicit was not set, I've since corrected this.
The application is working "flawlessly"...thanks to you. I can't tell you how much good you and others do by volunteering your time and expertise to help out us novices.

Good day to you and thanks.