Word Macros InDesign

I followed all of the steps for using Word to write my scripts for InDesign. It is a simple macro to go to the start of the line and delete 5 characters.
Sub DeleteFive()
' DeleteFive Macro
    Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine
    Selection.Delete Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    Selection.Delete Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    Selection.Delete Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    Selection.Delete Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    Selection.Delete Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
End Sub
It crashes when it tries to run the HomeKey line.
Copied it to the folder in InDesign and added the .vbs file extension.
I have a huge ID file I need to reformat and scripts would be a life and finger saver!
Thanks!
Rick
InDesign CC
Windows 7
32 GB Ram

Been banging this around a bit and think I found a decent solution.
The scenario is that we have Word files that have the same style name as our InDesign file, but we were getting overrides coming in from Word even though the styles in the two programs were nearly identical. We are currently still in CS3 with this particular series but CS5 had similar issues. I think at least part of the problem are the so called "default" tabs in the Word doc.
In InDesign, instead of telling the Word import filter to use the InDesign styles we told it to automatically rename. This puts "_wrd_#" at the end of the incoming style name where the "#" increments as a number. If you then delete those incoming styles and equate them to the corresponding InDesign style it works fantabulously. It keeps the overrides that were done in Word without any extra overrides on the other paragraphs.
Hoping this might help someone else.
All the Best,
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