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Message: [QUOTE="Greg Maxey, post: 5490249"] No Peter, you offered your opinion and commentary on a topic and question that is clearly over your head (read "outside your range of expertise.") The user has a file named something. He wants to save it as a new file named something esle. Then he wants to delete the original file. Nothing odd or particularily idiosyncratic about that. This can certainly be done in a single Word instance using out of the box interface provided Word cooperates and releases its pointers to temporary files. The OP is smart enough to know that it isn't default SaveAs behaviour. That is very likely the reason he has constructed a macro. If you really wanted to be helpful , instead of say 'bloat your post numbers', then as soon as you saw the term "macro" in the OP you should have considered that the matter is most likely over your head and left it alone. Your assertion "...usually when you Save As, it's because you want two copies of the file with different names, so it protects you from accidentally deleting the original" is one of the most cockamamie things you've said yet. Utterly ridiculous. Greg Maxey See my web site [URL]http://gregmaxey.mvps.org[/URL] for an eclectic collection of Word Tips. [/QUOTE]