Dissertations are going paperless at the University of Delaware The Office of Graduate studies at the University of Delaware decided to do their part in meeting our campus goal of a paperless environment by registering with UMI ProQuest as one of the first test universities to allow electronic submissions of dissertations. This means no more binding hard copies, only PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Eventually we plan to includes theses, so we must make this first phase of the project a success. We choose to use the service at UMI, because it fit well into our current campus requirements for UDThesis and it would require very little technical support. The plan is to go live in September 2004. This paper will briefly describe our current environment and the necssary steps to support UDThesis in our future environment. The primary goal of this paper will explain our support issues for the software aplications (Word, TeX and LaTeX) used to generate theses and dissertations and options for generating a PDF file. The overall goal of this project is to provide an enjoyable and successful experience for our graduate students and at the same time fulfill our campus goal of being a paperless environment.