Thanks for all the input here. I'm started to gain a much deeper appreciation for Word's power.

Along the lines of having everything in there to begin with and then removing them, I had run that through my mind and thought that might not be a good idea in my case.

For example, if the required text was a function of the selection in a drop down control, what if the user changed their selection? Had you already "removed" all but the required bit for the earlier choice, how would you be able to "reveal" the newly required choice?

Toggling visibility with the Font property would work I guess. From what I understand so far however, I think I'm liking the sounds of the Building Blocks Gallery, and the Autotext. As I understand it, that would allow you to store all the possible Ranges of text as elements of the AutoTextEntries collection, and then use them when and where needed with no (little) risk of the user inadvertently deleting something that might be needed later.

Thanks again for all the great input! I've got a long way to go on really being able to leverage Word.