My overall problem involves extracting data from Word documents, and is
similar to other problems found in other Excel discussions. My specific
problem involves a problem I run into when trying the code from these
discussions.

I get errors with the dimmension statements, like:
Dim appWord As New Word.Application
or
Dim appWD As New Word.Application

I get the error:
Complie error: User-defined type not defined

Do I need a special add-in or something to open Word documents?
(I'm running Excel 2003.)
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Richard