The highlighting is just for testing. I'm actually collecting the page position of the bookmark and the cell widths and heights. This is then used to OCR just those areas after the forms are filled out and scanned in. I have been collecting this bookmark info already but it is slow. Right now I just delete the access record and let VBA update the new record six times. If there is no solution I will just continue on, and maybe look for a solution at a later time. As a note the Word documents (field forms) are created/revised/update every few months, this is when the word documents are processed for the bookmark positions. Usually the forms are printed with their info pulled in from an Access database. They then go to the field and are filled in, signed and dated, returned to the office where they scanned and OCR'ed.