Thankyou very much for your time and advise. This seems to work nicely. Using the code you provided, do i simply just use a series of 'print' commands to generate output rather than using Win::OLE code such as

$worksheet->Cells(5,1)->{Value} = "Dunedin 9001";

This embeeds excel into my application (great), but how can i allow my client to print the page contents? I know good old Ctrl + P works fine, but is not really feasible. Can i also embeed the Main menu of excel into my page? Thankyou again for your help. I would be lost without you guys. Digger

Also when i run this script from a button on a previous page, it pops up a dialog box asking to open or save. Can i avoid this unwanted step

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