This sounds similar to a reporting system I wrote in about 1999 using Word automation API. It sat on a windows NT box and watched for changes on a netware share

This sounds similar to a reporting system I wrote in about 1999 using Word automation API. It sat on a windows NT box and watched for changes on a netware share. That would load up a text file, read it, parse it and pick documents and fill in bookmarks in the documents then print it to a printer or PDF file. Worked wonderfully apart from the memory leaks :)