Hi, I am a beginner in Perl, just recently installed ActivePerl 5.8.7 MSI on Windows XP with MS Office 2000. I have two Excel *.xls spreadsheets. In one of them general data is written in column 'A', in the second spreadsheet I have the several search strings written in column 'A'. How do I compare these two files so that the output would tell me which of the search strings can be found in the general data column of the first spreadsheet? Thanks, Jurgen