Maybe this should be a separate thread but it relates to your solution, which I'm using. I like the simplicity of putting the shared document and the document of inserted text in the same folder, so that no pathname is needed. But I am running into the issue of Word's treatment of relative paths, getting "Invalid file name" some of the time. I've read the explanation, affected by which document was opened most recently and which folder is considered current. But this is hard to understand, and I have to make it easy for the other company. Is there a simple way to explain how to make the relative path (that is, no path specified) work correctly?

[Later] Using a hint on a web page, I added the following to my two macros that reset the DocProperties:

Application.DefaultWebOptions.UpdateLinksOnSave = False

Would like anyone's opinion whether this will prevent the problem.