I think a few of the folks are on the right track. Actually, if they don't care about formatting, you can just save a plain ASCII file but using a .doc extension. When your client gets it, Word will open it. Not pretty, but easy. Otherwise I'd go with matthewb's or MCS's suggestion about the RTF modules. And as far as mailing the attachment, Mail::Mailer may work - I've also had great luck with MIME::Lite.