Word's automation is extremely slow for anything :(. You can get a bit of a speedup by preventing the changes to be shown by setting Application.ScreenUpdating to false while you insert the file, but this only really works when you're performing more than one operation. Other than this, there's not much you can do. Ryan Being little and getting pushed around by big guys all my life I guess I compensate by pushing electrons and holes around. What a bully I am, but I do enjoy making subatomic particles hop at my bidding - Roger Wright (2nd April 2003, The Lounge) Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late - John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

"In IE options, there's a box that says "Reuse IE windows for launching shortcuts". Make sure it's unchecked" THANKYOU!!!!! I have forced myself to use notedpad instead of IE for this very problem, and you have just solved it. Thankyou very much :)

Kick it until it stops... or you need a new Monitor. "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen

Have actually found the solution now (not ten minutes after asking :rolleyes: ), but thought I would post the solution as opposed to deleting the thread, in case anyone else had the same problem :) Instead of adding to the PageNumbers collection, all you need to do is add a field of type wdFieldPage to the header / footer range. Simple really :)

Martyn Pearson wrote: Maybe I put my contact lenses in backwards this morning. Doesn't matter ... CP is THE replacement for your conact lenses;)

Thanks for that - calling CEdit::GetFont() and passing the result to CDC::SelectObject() before doing the comparison worked a treat!

Martyn Pearson wrote: Is it ever possible that the value of hMyItem will change throughout the lifetime of the tree? No, if that happened then HTREEITEMs would be useless. --Mike-- Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm

Doh - completely missed that one in the documentation! That works a treat - thanks for that. *Martyn slopes off to check that his contact lenses are in the right way round* ;)