Hi MBACON and welcome to this forum. Your code to create the Word application and open the template seems off. Here's some code that might help. Dave
'open Word application
On Error Resume Next
Set WORD_App = GetObject(, "Word.Application")
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
On Error GoTo 0
Set WORD_App = CreateObject("Word.Application")
End If
'open doc
WORD_App.Documents.Open Filename:=T_PATH & TEMPLATE
'or....
Set WORD_Doc = WORD_App.Documents.Add(T_PATH & TEMPLATE)