Are you printing to a terminal or to a web page?

Probably very convoluted as I am still new to perl, but I output to terminal and "tee" the output to a file with docx extension. I want to open the file with word.

You can do that. However the file with the .docx extension will not work as a MS Word file because that file will be a simple text file, not a Microsoft document file.

You can tee to say, "Blah.txt". Open "Blah.txt" in MS word, then execute a macro by perhaps typing Ctl-M for "Music". That macro reformats the input into Word format which can be saved in a next step or it can be automatically be saved as Blah.docx in Word format.

It is possible in Word to have "auto-run" macros which do things when a particular type of file is opened. But that can be a security risk.

I suspect that what you need is a "glue piece of Perl" that makes a text file. Then manually open that text file in Word, "hit CTL-M" to re-format and then save the file in Word format or do what your want to do with it.

You should say for performance, things like: "I want to do this one time only", "I need to do this once per week", "I need to update a webpage every second", etc.

Does the output on the terminal show indentation? (I don't trust Word to display properly).

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A trick for producing documents that look nice in Word: output simple HTML and name the file with a docx extension. Word will format that reasonably and your employer gets a "docx" file.

You can indent - and get bullet points (or item numbers) - with HTML lists:

<ul>
  <li>artist
    <ul>
      <li>album
        <ol>
          <li>song</li>
          <li>song</li>
        </ol>
      </li>
      <li>album</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>artist</li>
</ul>
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Note: <ul> produces a bulleted list and <ol> produces a numbered list.

To get a list with out either bullets or numbers, use:

Update: As hippo rightly pointed out (below), you should use:

<ul style="list-style: none;">
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rather than (ab)using <dl> as I have done in the past. However, I have not actually tested that, so I will leave my (heretical) example, below, as-is.

<dl>
  <dd>artist</dd>
  <dd>artist</dd>
</dl>
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You can nest <dl> with <ul> and <ol> lists.