Thanks macropod.

I am actually not really a 'word' user, I usually work in databases, but I inherited a bunch of standard letters, where there were these annoying pop-up boxes to populate the date, address, etc etc & I thought there had to be a better way, and discovered userforms.

So, I'm not familiar with formfields, but I'll look into them, otherwise figure out how we can get the user to download the document before opening it.

Thanks.