Thanks so much, Paul - that's great. I did wonder why the -1; figured Word couldn't determine a line. Any chance you could tell me how to adapt this code so the table will be created in a new document? That's my preference (but since you made it write to the active doc, I wouldn't mind offering a choice of destination document).

I also still don't understand how your code gets all the bookmarks, when I ran loops that missed the header and shapes.