I desparately need some help.

There seems to be an incompatibilty issue with windows 98
and word 2000 when running OLE Automation process. I am
basically trying to automate the transfer of some data
from an excel spreadsheet into a word document using the
find and replacement method. My procedure works when I run
a colleagues PC which uses windows 95 and office 2000,
however it doesn't run on mine. The only difference is the
different windows platform.  The error message I get is
error5 - invalid call or arguement.  When going into
help,this suggests some problems due to the platform I am
using. It is not the code itself cos it works on windows
95. Please see the problem code below.

I've tried looking and searching everywhere for a solution
and cannot find one. I've read lots of literature which
does acknowledge that there are compatibilty issues but I
can't a solution anywhere.

Can anyone please help. This is my last resort. I do not
know where else to seek help.

This is the part I'm having trouble with. Error message
appears from the second line (.text).

With ActiveDocument.Content.Find
..Text = "ddy"
..Replacement.Text = cdy
..Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll, Forward:=True
End With

Thanks in advance
Susan
.

If you really do have two periods before text, then that is your problem.

Please post any response to the newsgroups for the benefit of others who may
also be following the thread.

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP