IMO your looking at the wrong tools. Just because a screwdriver looks like a chisel, doesnt mean it should be used for carving wood.

IM(Humble)O, If your going client server (ie web-based app) it would be better and more scalable to use a client server based RDBMS, such as Oracle, sqlserver, postgres (free), mysql (also free).

Once you have your data in there, (if you want to create reports) you could use something as simple as sql to generate html pages, or something fancy that will produce a pdf or even generate the MS doco's (Excel), for you (Have a look on the cpan).

I'm guessing you have a little knowledge of sql, and RDBMS's from your Access (tm) comments, so be not afraid, the knowledge you have is not wasted, and can be applied to a "more worthy" RDBMS. You may however have to pickup some additional skills such as how to install and configure a c/s rdbms (can be tricky, but not extremely difficult - there are loads of help and doco for out there), and perhaps some manual table creation skills...

Once you have those you can create a much more scalable framework for want you're after!

Good luck!

In reply to Re: Is there a way to embed Word or other Office applications into my perl app? by Ryszard
in thread Is there a way to embed Word or other Office applications into my perl app? by cosmicdreams

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