use Win32::OLE qw(in with); use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel'; $Win32::OLE::Warn = 3; my $Excel=Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application') $excelfile= "C:/perlpractice/simple.xlsm"; $Book=$Excel->Workbooks->Open($excelfile); $Sheet=$Book->Worksheets(1);