Hi, I am looking for a solution to a server problem. I am part of a 2-person team - I look after document scanning, OCR (by outside agencies) as well as all development. My colleague is responsible for obtaining copyright permission from publishers (for what I do). Part of her process is sending emails to publishers with Word attachments. These are presently being generated by PHP on our NT server,but recently the process has started to slow down the server to the point of uselessness. I'm looking for an alternative way to do this. My colleague has rejected text file attachments as looking unprofessional. I would like to find a way of generating these files without actually needing to use COM, or winword on the server. We looked at RTF templates but found the filesize too great. One option I am considering is installing PHP on her PC and doing the letter generation locally, but don't know how I'm going to trigger it esp as our IT person has said I can't install Apache. Doe anyone have any suggestions? Cheers George, an Englishman abroad in sunny Edinburgh -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php