My current challenge is creating a hyperlink in word from two components in Access - the link and the address. I get the merge info into word, by exporting from Access to a TXT document in csv. Then open WORD and merge the doc with the TXT file to create a form letter. I use this code in a Word MACRO to merge with the doc Code: Sub CatMerge() ' ' CatMerge Macro Macro recorded 3/15/2004 by pmh ' ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource Name:= _ "C:\catsys\mail\catmergeprop.txt", ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly:=False _ , LinkToSource:=True, AddToRecentFiles:=False, PasswordDocument:="", _ PasswordTemplate:="", WritePasswordDocument:="", WritePasswordTemplate:= _ "", Revert:=False, Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto, Connection:="", SQLStatement _ :="", SQLStatement1:="" With ActiveDocument.MailMerge .Destination = wdSendToNewDocument .SuppressBlankLines = True With .DataSource .FirstRecord = wdDefaultFirstRecord .LastRecord = wdDefaultLastRecord End With .Execute Pause:=False End With End Sub The LINK and the address come over fine. Right now the user has to fiddle about in the newly created document with CTRL + K to make the hyperlink. Is there any way to do this in code behind the scenes? cheers Catman