Hi Diane, If you're in a microsoft shop, you probably should take a look at .NET for manipulating data sources like Word (or excel, ppt, etc...). You can use the windows platform .NET for non-web server applications. The below article might be interesting - it references vb.net, but you should be able to tranlate that to C# fairly easily http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/17358 -chris http://www.semioticpixels.com