Some time ago I posted about a question about reading Excel files as a server process, to get around the tighter restrictions Microsoft have been applying on Office Automation.

I now need to extend this, by finding methods/libraries to read other sorts of Office files in an automated way on a server.

The applications I'm interested in are Word, Powerpoint, Project and to a lesser extent Word and Visio.

I need to be able to support 97-2003 office files, and the newer open xml formats (e.g. xlsx, docx) at a very least. With regards to Word integration, I also need to be able to handle writing/reading RTF text.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them.

Thanks