For translation work, I would like to have a macro that copies each paragraph from the source Word document to a target document twice, using different color font, and then protects the first one of those two occurrences from editing. The proofing language of the second occurrence would be changed to the target language. I would then manually translate the second occurrence, and would have confidence that I don't accidentally change the original text.




I have tried to do this several times, and while it sounds simple, I haven't had much of luck. The problem is, these are complex documents and they include lots of tables, etc., where I get a run-time error 4605 saying the "method is not available because the object refers to the end of table row". I would settle for skipping tables if I even knew how to do that.

Any suggestions?