Sascha, >| after a lot of testing on my Windows 2k3 server I stopped trying >| to use Winword through COM, because the returned Word COM object >| never worked (I could neither open or create a document, nor >| could I even retrieve version infos from the Word instance, >| nothing ever worked). >| I used Windows 2003 Server SP1, PHP 5.2.6 with office 2003 for my tests. >| >| Now I wonder if anyone ever used Word on a Win 2003 Server? And >| what did you have to configure to use it? Never got as far as Win 2003, still on good old NT4, but I was never happy with Winword running on the server. I have now moved to using the 'clsMsDocGenerator.php' class. By formatting the document as html and then pushing it into the class instance, it is possible to generate Word documents with a small footprint without the overhead of COM (meaning also that it doesn't require a Windows server either). Hope this helps. George -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php