Cheryl, Just some thoughts and questions on your problem: 1. Easiest solution: are you absolutely sure you cannot send them a time sheet file (respecting their specifications, of course) that you made on your computer? If that's the case, just write a .CSV file using any normal text editor and you are done. Such a sheet would look something like this: ---- ;;;Task for week ending Task;Date;From (time);To (time);Details;More details 01;2002/01/31;11:00;11:05;.CSV file creation;Time sheet for xxx. (etc...) ---- Of course, the actual file format may be very different from the one above, but you get my drift: if they accept .CSV files, you are done. 2. More complicated solution: Download xlhtml (at http://www.xlhtml.org) and convert your Excel file into HTML. Take a look at the converted file with Lynx (or Links, which is better at rendering tables). Then, fill-in the blanks of the sheet with your data using a text editor and send the file back by e-mail. You should warn the person in charge of tracking the time sheets that you have converted the file into HTML, but he/she should be able to open it either with Excel of with Internet Explorer. Having an editor open in one virtual terminal and Links open in another should allow yo uto quickly check on what you have entered, and correct it if you have made a mistake. I strongly suspect that they only ask you this in order to print out the time sheet and file the piece of paper somewhere. So, receiving a file which is not "exactly" Excel, but which looks close to the original model should be OK with them. 3. "Signature" solution: As far as I know, there are only two kinds of "electronic" signature: (a) a "real" electronic signature, done with a program like GPG -- enter "man gpg" for more details. GPG is installed by default on almost all Linux distributions. OR... (b) a "fake" electronic signature, which is just your normal signature, digitized into a bitmap file (.GIF or .PNG). If they want a digitized signature, again, they probably want to print out your timesheet, make sure it's signed and file it somewhere. You'll need the help of a sighted person to create a bitmap file with the Gimp (for instance) or to use a scanner to digitize your signature into a .GIF file. With the xlhtml solution I outlined above, the answer is easy: just create an HTML "link" to the image, inside the HTML timesheet file, at the proper place. For instance: <p>Signed:</p> <p><img src="/home/cheryl/my_signature.gif"></p> Of course, you should replace "/home/cheryl/my_signature.gif" by the proper path and file name to your signature. Finally, please note you can combine both solutions (1 & 2). Just make sure you understand the Excel file format they provide and try to copy it as best as you can into a .CSV file. You'll probably need the hel of sighted person to get it "just right", but you should be OK after a few tries. I hope this helps -- feel free to contact me if you need more help. /----------------------------------------------------\ | Gil Andre -- Technical Writer -- gandre@arkeia.com | | Knox Software: http://www.arkeia.com | | +------------------------------------------------+ | |A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation.| | Backup we do: it's restore we find tricky. | \----------------------------------------------------/