That did it! Amazing. All I had to do was change wdFormatText to 2 and nothing else to fix my code. I had also tried "Word.FileConverters(2).SaveFormat" and that didn't work either. I was so close, I could have used the 2 and that would have done it. But, I never would have known why.

I tried some other approaches and got strange results like "type mismatch" for my objects that worked a moment before.

The "Option Explicit" was a mystery for me and I looked it up:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...7e17ef0e05.asp