Some thoughts from a tyro who's been doing word processing for about 20
years. First, look into styles and assigning styles rather than individual
direct formatting. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm The way you
are doing it, you are reinventing the wheel. I would recommend two sets of
header and footer styles for your different sorts of reports. The second set
should be based on the first set because you want both to be based on either
the header or footer styles.
Second, use AutoText to hold your base formats rather than separate
documents.
Third, use the range object rather than the Selection object to apply your
formatting. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA.htm#Ranges
Fourth, "Master Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature"
that not only doesn't work but also destroys documents. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm. I'm sure
this is not what you were talking about.

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richardb - 20 Oct 2005 23:33 GMT
Charles,
Thank you for your suggestions. Autotext sounds much better than what I'm
doing, but I have to try this. Each letterhead includes a different graphic
as a logo, plus lines and boxes. That will have to be stored in the autotext
and I have not tried such an autotext yet. I'll get back to you, probably
Monday.
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richardb - 24 Oct 2005 15:22 GMT
Dear Charles,
I used your second suggestion to employ autotext and this worked fine. I
learned that autotext will hold all the graphics, lines, etc. of the header.
I used a macro to open the header and insert the autotext. Great!
I will make a point of learning more about the range object.
No I didn't mean Master Document as the Word Feature.
Many thanks for your help, which was "right on target" and instructive.
richardb
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Charles Kenyon - 24 Oct 2005 16:22 GMT
You are welcome, glad I guessed right.

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