You're undeniably right. I read the vulnerabilities and I was alarmed so I forwarded the link to the IT dept; I do not think the IT guy opened the document; he only replied, "thank you" to that email

I have not heard from him again... until today

New argument for not loading the CPAN module WIN32::OLE is that it is not set for Linux. He said WIN32::OLE binds to Window when running from the Linux side but our Linux servers aren't configured and will not work.

He is closing my request to mount the CPAN module that edits Windows Docx files!

I've been nothing but nice to the IT guy but at every turn he denies me.

My opportunity to write perl code for this application to replicate earlier orders is being thwarted by the inability to convince IT that the WIN32::OLE written for Perl is critical to my code"

Any suggestions on any other language that can take a docx file and edited ??

I know this is a Perl forum but I've been kneecapped from using Perl at every turn.

And there is no way I am editing 100's of docx to create virtual docx in a new format