I need to rummage through hundreds of excel spredsheets and determine if there is an autoshape/wordart (are they considered the same type of object in VBA?) If there is wordart I need the text contained in the wordart. I know how to open and search the spreadsheets, I just need to know what object or type autoshapes/wordart are and what to use to retrieve the text from the wordart. Thanks in advance for your help!