Richard,

At the top of the VBE Window, click 'Tools References'. Set a reference
to the "Microsoft Word 11.0 Object Library". That should take care of the
problem.

Steve



"Richard" wrote in message
...
My overall problem involves extracting data from Word documents, and is
similar to other problems found in other Excel discussions. My specific
problem involves a problem I run into when trying the code from these
discussions.

I get errors with the dimmension statements, like:
Dim appWord As New Word.Application
or
Dim appWD As New Word.Application

I get the error:
Complie error: User-defined type not defined

Do I need a special add-in or something to open Word documents?
(I'm running Excel 2003.)
--
Richard