win32com, Word, and Find.Execute

[Vepxistqaosani]

For reasons that escape me, I can't run a Word Find & Replace command 
from Python. Find works perfectly well, but there doesn't seem to be a 
way to pass a Replace argument to Execute.

Now, I have used the obvious workaround -- my Find & Replace stuff is 
now in a Word template that Python can load for every document that 
needs to be processed -- but shouldn't Execute be callable from Python 
with arguments? It's just a Word function, after all.

Googling this group, I found that this problem was reported in 1998, but 
no solution was forthcoming. Has any further work been done?

Thanks,
Fred