Quote Originally Posted by snb View Post
But why would you like to 'unlink' ?
One of the documents filled from VBA is the template of what will eventually be a large Word document. When filled from VBA, there is still a lot more work to do on the document. VBA only puts some helpful bits of information in there (names, addresses, correct pronouns, etc). After the document is completed, it gets formatted by admin staff. They have had trouble with other fields in documents - although these were a different type. The trouble has come when they want to modify something in one of the fields, and it breaks links to other fields in the document, and that causes errors. So I thought it would be best to remove DocVariables when it gets to that stage.

You've got me thinking now, though. I wonder if DocVariables would give the same trouble. I'd better do some experimenting... or just wait till the thing is up and running, and see what happens.

These documents are sometimes sent to clients as Word docs as well (rather than PDF). I wonder if there will be any issues there.

Now, about not using .activate in VBA...?