Greg, as an addition to what I already said to you, you can consider taking a look at oood from ERP5 project
http://wiki.erp5.org/HowToUseOood OOOd (openoffice.org daemon) runs openoffice behind the scene, and allows you to interact with it via XML-RPC; it should be quite robust, since it is actively mantained and used in a big software project. And, also, it should be quite easy to extend in order to have your custom functions run via XML-RPC. Regards Marco -- Marco Bizzarri http://notenotturne.blogspot.com/ http://iliveinpisa.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
