Thanks so much Monks for welcoming me back. Couldn't resist using my old account because I'm only 100 points away from being titled a Monk! I think this last post is exactly what I was looking for... I'm not sure you can do multiple replacements with that win32 ole method? Giving it a shot now. THANK YOU

Also wanted to provide the error message returned in case anyone is searching for this on this site or through google by the error code.

Win32::OLE(0.1712) error 0x80020009: "Exception occurred"
    in PROPERTYPUT "Text" at evolveIT2.pl line 193.
OLE exception from "Microsoft Word": String parameter too long.
[download]