DDE/Word/VB

I am writing a VB program that causes MS Word to open a new document. Before the document is saved I need to issue commands using DDEExecute. The probem I face is that I get a DDE error whenever I try to use DDE with the document. Once the document is saved it works fine but not before hand. The name of the new document is "Document" then a number eg Document1 etc. When I use the System topic and "Topics" item Document1 shows as a valid Topic. I think this is just a syntax problem. The code I am using is: [login to view URL] = "Winword|Document1" [login to view URL] = 60 [login to view URL] = 2 [login to view URL] "hello" I am using Word2000 *New Comment. Now see example files attached. ## Deliverables Simple example of how to do it. ## Platform Windows