Yes of course. Office automation highly not recommended on server side. So I suggest to reject .DOT templates and use alternative ways. But I can tolerate this in some cases (small-sized intranet WEB-applications, with reports richer than simple RTF). Here you can find official comprehensive information about the subject on Microsoft KB....
The only way to work with .DOT files is to use MS Word automation via COM Interop.
However, it is not good idea to use Word automation on server-side especially when server may have many simultaneous calls to Word.
Alternative ways:
* Generate RTF files instead of .DOC (see this article for example).
* Generate .DOCX files (see this article for example). But this forced users to use Word 2007 to open this files. ...
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