Check out Alfresco. It's basicly a (E)CMS, which you upload word / excel / etc. It may do everything you want, or you may be able to extract the parts you want and leave the rest, or it may be of no use to you whatsoever. It basicly sets up an OOo daemon, and connects to it to do its conversions. Downside ( unless you're also a java dev ) is that the connector is written in Java, and may be difficult to port to PHP. Unless it's a clean java class that you can initialise with www.php.net/java -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php