I just got Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition.

I want to simply write VBA code that opens up a session of Microsoft
Word, adds a header/footer to the document, then modifies some menu
items.

How do I begin?????

If I don't have Office 97, can I still easily convert Word 6.0 macros to
VBA and run them through my Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Ed
application?

Thanks!
Robert

Dim msword as Object
set msword = CreateObject("word.application")

' If you want to open a specific document

set curdoc = Documents.Open(filename:=Memdoc)

' memdoc would conatin the path and document name as in c:\MyDocs\test.doc
'if you get 429 erros you need to trap it and to a getobject above instead
of createobject

msword.application.visible = True

With msword
        .WindowState = wdWindowStateMaxSize
end with

Documents.(curdoc).Activate
' following is not a header you'll have to modify for that

set firstrange = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).Range
ActiveDcoument.Words(1).Text = "This is what I want to say" & chr$(10)
with activedocument.Paragraphs(1).Range.Font
        .Name = "Arial"
        .Size = 16
        .Bold = True
End With
'etc etc

hope this helps

Chuck