Thanks for your help. I can grab the text and display it as a phonteic guide, but still can't use GetPhonetic to nab the correct guides. Here's what I have so far:

[VBA]Sub furigana()
'
' Furigana Macro
'
With Selection

Dim furi As String
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application

furi = Selection.text
'furi = xlApp.GetPhonetic(furi)

.Range.PhoneticGuide text:=furi, Alignment:= _
wdPhoneticGuideAlignmentOneTwoOne, Raise:=15, FontSize:=8, FontName _
:="YOzFont04"
End With
End Sub[/VBA]

If I uncomment the xlApp line, the macro fails with "Object variable or block variable not set" even though I have enabled the Excel Object libraries. Why would EXCEL have GetPhonetic and WORD wouldn't? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Anyways, how can I access this method correctly?