Error 462: The remote server machine does not exist when working with Word via Excel VBA

Question

I open a Word file programmatically in Excel VBA and add/edit contents using bookmarks.

I find that on alternate runs, I get

Error 462: The re

Answer 1

You have two unqualified references to Word objects:

objSelection.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("Heading 1")

which appears twice, needs to be:

objSelection.Style = objWord.ActiveDocument.Styles("Heading 1")

Otherwise you're creating an implicit reference to Word that you can't destroy in your code.