The "legacy" way to create a Word document would be using Win32::OLE in order to drive word to produce your document. This would work only on Win32. Choosing this solution, I would make a template document containing tags which I would "search&replace" with my datas.
An other solution (linux friendly) would be to use RTF::Document which allows some bells and whistles without Word (same proposed solution applies also here).
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HTH, Dominique
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