I was able to run your program on a Linux machine without problems. The only thing that I changed was the location of the Excel file.

Perhaps, one of the support modules need upgrading. For comparison, here are the versions that I used:

    Module                            Version
    Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple   1.01
    Spreadsheet::ParseExcel           0.2602
    IO::Stringy                       2.108
    IO::Scalar                        2.104
    OLE::Storage_Lite                 0.11
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John.