Hi troubadour,

You can do this in visual basic. By any chance you have used the string
manuplation in Visual Basic by the way?

Any way here is what you do. In a Visual Basic project, add reference to
Word 8.0, just check about this, it should be 8.0, though tis is not the
whole code, this is a basic code and will give you a overview as how the
program flows, I'll post the whole code

In a command button click event what you can do is use the

dim objword as word
dim cleanupstr as string

dim filetoopen as string

set objword=createobject("","Word.application")

Documents.Open filename confirmconversions:=True, Readonly:=True

With ActiveDocument.Content

' for each sentence in the document

   For i = 1 To .Sentences.Count

       
cleanupstr = .Sentences.Item(i)

   If Mid$(cleanupstr, 1, 1) = "#" Then
       filetoopen=mid$(cleanupstr,2,len(cleanupstr)-2)      
       
     Documents.Open filetoopen confirmconversions:=True, Readonly:=True
     ActiveDocument.Content.Copy
     activedocument.close          
     ActiveDocument.Content.InsertAfter Selection.Paste  

   Else
End If
Next i
End With

I am not sure about the pasting into the document though, insertafter or
insertmethod can be used to insert the content, I am not sure if
selection.paste works not not. Any way before you try on the actual documents
you can use this code on some test documents and try, to be on safe side.

Hope this code helps you.

Anand