Work with a word document without word installed on server

Hi,
I'm currently working on an application that has to open word documents (word forms) and read and write data from/to it. But, unfortunately, the web server hasn't Word installed (my ISP...). Is there any other way to do that?
I'm currently investigating about working with rtf documents, but the syntax is turning me crazy!!! Any idea/dll/other way to do that?

Thanks in advance,

Juanjo

I had the same problem, and it can't really be done. The server needs Word installed to open/edit Word documents, though you can still use them as attachments.

What type of forms are you talking about? My solution was to re-create the form using HTML, which of course can be edited from any server.

If the forms could be downloaded, then edited on the client, and uploaded, that might work too, but without knowing more of what your goal is, I can't know for sure.
HTH

It should be a "two-way" application. On one side, the client must make changes in some word templates and upload to the server, who must read them and insert the data into a database. Later, the application must generate some word documents (reports) from templates and the user must be able to download them. That's why I need to access the documents.

Thanks a lot,

Juanjo