For some code to do the interactive part, see: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...html#post31849

For some code for the multi-document part, see: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...cel-range.html

With the Excel workbook approach, there is no practical limit to the # of words that can be searched for (the real limit in the above implementations is 1,048,576 search terms, but only because the macros aren't coded to work with more than one column of search terms ...).

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]