Because I get the text as string from httprequest's response text. I then insert that text to instance of new word doc (temp), then extract the text and close the word unsaved. This works OK, but thought If it can be directly done within VBA what is the need to open new instance of word un-necessarily.

Nothing in what I have said implies starting another Word session. Furthermore, everything I have suggested envisages the use of VBA. Indeed, all the code I have posted is VBA, not the vbscript you've been trying to use!!! I'd have thought that much, at least, was obvious.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

My Mistake. I will try and then comment further.