You problem is the fundamentally wrong approach to use of proprietary software. You created a heavy dependency on MS Office, which is hardly absolutely necessary. You should also understand that Office file formats are proprietary, not universal or standardized (the situation is being improved though with introduction of Office Open XML,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML[
^]). Really professional software never depends on MS Office. First of all, you should think about getting out of this dead end.
—SA