Exporting to microsoft word documents

[eluser]Crafter[/eluser]
I know there is a solution using COM objects, but there are Windows specific, and I'm not windows-savy.

For a true cross platform solution, I used RTF files with placeholders, where I performed string replacements.

I used a similar approach fro an Excel file, where I conrted the Excel file to an XML file, then placed placeholders in significant positions.

The XML route will take macros etc, acroos, whereas the RTF route is for pure formatting.

The elegant way is move away from Word and do the report in OpenOffice.

EDIT:
Excuse me, but after posting I noticed you asked for a conversion of HTML to Word.
My suggested solutions may not be the best approch.

However, just try forcing the page download as a word document using headers and Word should open the file ok.