Hi, 

I find it very strange that your document / template is automatically saved when you simply do a SaveAs.

Maybe it has to do with one of these settings of your Word? (this is office 2016)

Maybe this might be also a useful link:

https://community.appeon.com/index.php/qna/q-a/mail-merge-letters

You say you don't use "bookmarks" because they would be replaced in the original document, even if you don't save the original document and doing a SaveAs()?

Try to use a "template" document as the original document (.dot or .dotx). See if the problem still exists.

What it sounds like is that you are trying to do a mail merge. If you're on 2016, goto the menu "mailings", "mail merge" .

Once you've figured out how to do the mail merge in Word,

- start recording a macro (in the "view" menu)  and

- go through the whole process of doing the merge in word.

- When finished, stop recording your macro and edit it.

There you find find the VBA code which corresponds to the OLe commands that you can run in powerbuilder to do the same.

We've got this done somewhere in our old code, but it will cost me a bit to get a working example.

I've tried to google on this, but I couldn't find a clear simple working example. Maybe you are more lucky or someone might still have a working example, since this is 'old school'.

Let us / me know if you need any help.

Hi, CJ - 

I have not done this, but here is where I go look to find out what I can or cannot do in Word via OLE:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/word.field

I suggest you examine the Methods and Properties of the Field object for clues. Perhaps the "Data" property?

Good luck!
John