Genghis the Engineer,
According to Microsoft:
Custom and built-in properties of a Word document can be lost when a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) module is present and one of the following conditions is true:
- You embed a Microsoft Word document object that contains a VBA module within a Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word document.
-or-
- You add a VBA module to a Word document embedded within Excel or Word.
To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a):
Office 2000 Service Release 1a (SR-1a) Update - Important Information for Windows 2000 Users
To temporarily work around this problem, use linked instead of embedded documents.
Take Care,
Richard