use Win32; use Win32::OLE qw(in with); use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel'; use Win32::OLE::Variant; use Win32::OLE::NLS qw(:LOCALE :DATE); use Win32::OLE; use Win32::OLE::Const; $Win32::OLE::Warn = 3; # die on errors... $Constant = Win32::OLE::Const->Load('Microsoft Excel'); $Excel = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', sub {$_[0]->Quit;}) || die "Error launching MS Excel ".Win32::OLE->LastError(1); $Excel->{Visible} = 0; $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Add; my $filename="C:\\perlscripts\\test.xls"; $Book->SaveAs($filename); $Book->Close({SaveChanges=>0});