Hi Pieter,

It is always nice to see a new name in this newsgroup.

I never did what you ask for in VB net. But of course is Interop for it.

However some years ago somebody was struggling with something like this as
well.

I gave him the advice to try HTML, because that is quiet easy to handle in
VBNet as well as it is in modern Office versions. He wrote back if I thought
that his company was not a profesional organisation and that HTML was for
amateurs. That it is not it is the predecessor of WordXML and the successor
of SGML

Only if you don't succeed of course by interop or WordXML

Some links if you don't have them already for 2003

Office
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;311452

http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/

Pia Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c41bd61e-3060-4f71-a6b4
-01feba508e52&displaylang=en

HOW TO: Call a Visual Basic .NET Class Library from Visual Basic for
Applications in Microsoft Office
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317535

Cor

Visual Studio 2005 and the .Net framework allows you to create "reports"
(using something very closed to the Sql Reporting services, but without the
server features).
The generated reports can be exported into several formats, including the
PDF format, or excel or HTML (don't remember if Word is included too).

This incredibly increases the developpement of reports generation.

HTH,
Steve