Thank you CoVAX. These three related links were helpful, but not quite enough to get me over the hump. Grateful for them, though: http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.6/faq/Windows/ActivePerl-Winfaq12.html#convert_vba http://www.corion.net/talks/vb2perl/vb2perl.en.html http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=153486