How do I convert a VBA macro to Perl? should be of interest, along with other parts of that page.

Did you know that you can easily convert Visual Basic to Perl by basically replacing every Foo.Bar in the VB code with $Foo->Bar in the Perl code?

Didn't know that - thanks again

Without using Format/Style, the text in the body of the Word doc is being replaced, but footnotes are not. So, I am being specific to the footnote. Is there something wrong with this code?

$selection = $word->ActiveDocument->Content;
$selection->Find->ClearFormatting;
$selection->Find->{Style} = $word->ActiveDocument->Styles("Footnote Te
+xt");
$selection->Find->Replacement->ClearFormatting;
$selection->Find->Replacement->{Style} = $word->ActiveDocument->Styles
+("Footnote Text");
$selection->Find->{Text} = "Software";
$selection->Find->Replacement->{Text} = "SW";
$selection->Find->{Wrap} = wdFindContinue; 
$selection->Find->{Format} = 'True';
$selection->Find->{MatchCase} = 'False';
$selection->Find->{MatchWholeWord} = 'False';
$selection->Find->{MatchWildcards} = 'False';
$selection->Find->{MatchSoundsLike} = 'False';
$selection->Find->{MatchAllWordForms} = 'False';
$search_res = $selection->Find->Execute({Replace => wdReplaceAll});
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