I figured it out. I didn't realize that I only had MS Office referenced,
instead of Office and Word. The macro is running now.
I have one more question. I need to run this macro for several documents,
do I need to make a complete new macro for each document or is there a way
that I can add the docs to this macro have it work for each doc.?

"Michelle Hanan" wrote in message
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I understand what you're saying Tony, however when I run the macro in excel
it highlights the myDoc as Word.Document line of code and gives me a
compile error: User-defined type not defined. I don't understand why or how
to fix it.
"tony h" wrote in
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Trying to get the referencing right is not easy in these situations if
you don't have much experience.

A first step though : change ActiveDocument to myDoc. Basically at the
beginning you open the document and "call it" myDoc. Now no matter what
else happens if you use myDoc it is the document you opened. Whereas
ActiveDocument is just the document that is active at the time - which
maynot be the one you opened.

This point is true for anything that is labelled Active... or
current... etc

Do you know how to use the debug tools? look up these - especially F8.



hope this helps


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