Walter

About the Selection thing, and this could be related to deleting
bookmarks.

If you select something in Word you are selecting everything - text,
formatting, alignment etc

So when you delete the Selection you delete all of that.

Rather than use Selection why not create references to the objects in
the document, just like you would create references to ranges in
Excel.

Why don't you try creating references to the objects, like bookmarks,
in the document?

You might also want to consider using fields.

Also why are you creating 2 instances of Word? You should only need
one.

In fact having 2 instances might prove problematic if you are copying/
pasting between them.

You would have to rely on the clipboard I think.

I'd create one instance of Word and 2 references for the documents you
are opening in it.

Something like this perhaps:

Set wdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")

wdApp.Visible = True

Set wdDocInput = wdApp.documents.Open (Filename:=input,
ReadOnly:=True)

<bSet wbDocOutput = wdApp.documents.Open("Filename:=input,
ReadOnly:=True)</b

Mind you writing that and looking back at your code I'm wondering why
you are opening the same document twice.

If you have a document which has all the text you want and you want to
copy from that to create another document why
not open the source document and then create a new blank document.