vba FileDIalog box does not display Word XP

you need to add the Set dlgOpen = Nothing outside of the With Statement.  Currently you are still accessing this variable within the With so you can't destroy it.

Hopefully that should remove it from memory and this problem should disappear (famous last words)

Hey Wobbled, when I read your response, I thought - yes, how silly of me why didnt I see that.  I have made the change and checked all other set statements but the error is still occuring.  I thought this was the answer, I tried to expand the error messages to see if could get more information but simply get error number of 0, i do get an 'there is not enough memory or disk space' error when using another filedialog box but cannot work out why

I have looked at your code and made a few changes.  I've run this many times on my PC and I am not getting the errors that you say you do so give it a go.

I have made a few changes - I now use a function SelectAFile to open the dialog box, once completed the function closes and any memory associated to items within the function should be removed.
I also slightly changed how you were setting the fileDialog to the variable.

I have gone a bit overkill on the file select, by looping through any selected items even though you have set multiselct to false, but this way you can easily change it to true and modify the loop in the future if you wish

Public Function SelectAFile() As String

Dim fd As FileDialog
Dim vrtSelectedItem As Variant

    SelectAFile = vbNullString
    
    Set fd = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)

    With fd
        
        .Filters.Add Description:="All files (*.*)", Extensions:="*.*"
        .AllowMultiSelect = False
        If .Show = -1 Then
            For Each vrtSelectedItem In .SelectedItems
                SelectAFile = vrtSelectedItem
            Next
            SelectAFile = UCase(Mid(SelectAFile, Len(sQualityPath) + 1))
        Else
            SelectAFile = vbNullString      'If the user presses Cancel...
        End If
    End With
    
    Set fd = Nothing

End Function

Sub GetFile()
Dim strFile As String

    strFile = SelectAFile

    If strFile <> vbNullString Then
        'do what you want with the file name etc
        'call main
        MsgBox strFile
    Else
         Beep
         MsgBox "No file selected", vbInformation, "Creat draft of next version of quality document"
    End If
    
End Sub

Select allOpen in new window

THanks, I will copy this into my code and let you know how I go.

OK, so your code works and if i strip down my code to only use your functions it works, I then progressivelly added back in the remaining code to get full functionality and have determined that something is occuring further down but havent been able to get a consistant enough result to pinpoint the area.
Something which I noticed but havent been able to determine why/what.  With the final version of the code, if you leave the last file created by the macro open then it works every time.  The error occurs if you manuallu close the file opened by the macro, and then restart the macro.  Not really sure what this means.

I changed the code again, thinking it may have been caused by the open word document so created teh document then closed in the macro.  Error now occurs on the second run.  Not really sure what is going on or if worth persuing.

I had the same thought and removed the activeDocument and ActiveWindow code but no change.  After reading your response I went back and checked for other instanaces of ActiveDocument which I found in a function.  I removed this as well but still no change.  There are other instances of ActiveDocument but I didnt worry about those as not part of the code which is being run.

The fact that the error doesnt occur as long as one of the window doccuments is open is interesting and probably the key but I cant work out why.

I have accepted wobbled suggestions as a solution as have allowed me to at least identify the area of the problem and provide a workaround to the client until I have resolved what is going on

Thank you for the points.  Hope that you are able to track down the exact cause of the issue, I know how difficult these things can be and often how simple the solution is!

I hope so too, will leave for a while and come back and look at it with fresh eyes, often that can help