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chinman has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings! I have a script that mucks around in Excel, which I've been using since Office 2000. Suddenly and tragically, I am having issues with Excel 2013 users. I need to make the workbook visible, otherwise when I save the Excel file, the workbook will be hidden when the user tries to open it. I have used the code below successfully for years to accomplish this. I have marked the offending line below in the code. When this is used with Excel 2013 on Win7 x64, I get the following error:

Win32::OLE(0.1712) error 0x8002000b: "Invalid index" in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "Windows" at blah.pl line 91. Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at blah.pl line 91.

Has anyone else run into this, or have any suggestions?

use strict; use Win32::OLE qw(with); use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel'; sub open_sheet { my $file = shift; my $workbook = Win32::OLE->GetObject( "$file" ) || die "Could not locate $file.\n"; my $excelApp = $workbook->{Application}; $excelApp->{Visible} = 1; # ****this next line no longer works in Excel 2013**** $excelApp->Windows( $workbook->{Name} )->{Visible} = 1; # ^^^^bad! .... }

Thanks!