You are a godsend. That is exactly what I've been looking for. I tried Limbic~Region's code and it worked for the IRS pdf form that braught Merlyn to SoPW, but not on my government pdf without the pdf-form.

Your code, however showed me the way to nirvana. My project involves a thirteen page form with hundreds of fields and I suspect it may take a week or two at it to work out all the details for it. But my tinkering to determine whether it was possible to overwrite a pdf document has now come to an end. I can now move on to other aspects of that project when I get to it. Thank you so much for that quick sample.

-- Hugh