Thanks for your reply, Paul, and all the great guidance you have provided in this forum.

I actually want the data to land in the named Excel table, tbl_Employees by adding a new row to the existing table.

I was trying to blend your approach of capturing the CC data (very elegant!) and Susan Hardkins' How to update UserForm VBA code to accommodate an Excel Table to pull the CC data into an Excel table (for some reason the forum is denying a posting if I add a hyperlink, apologies).

She sets a variable oNewRow as follows: Set oNewRow = Selection.ListObject.ListRows.Add(AlwaysInsert:=True)
She further explains... In this case, I believe the oNewRow variable is more efficient because one statement inserts the input values as a new record and tells Excel where the values go.

Using her syntax of ListRows.Add you would not have to locate the last filled cell (it seems to me).
So this was one and there are many other reasons for wanting to use an Excel table.

It seems to me that I am trying to address Excel in the Word portion of the macro. So maybe that is really my question?