I have done alot of R&D in this area and it is true, it is very slow to use OLE. Here are the alternatives that I have tried with varying amounts of success:

Used a text template system and then imported the raw ASCII into the Word document
Wrote VBScript to automate the search and replace of global variables that I created i.e. {{first_name}}. This option allowed me to retain more Word formatting
Used text templates with raw RTF output that Word could import

Richard

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In reply to Re: replacing text in MSWord? (win32::OLE) by richardX
in thread replacing text in MSWord? (win32::OLE) by Anonymous Monk

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