That's a good reply. Just a few additional points.

You can install the latest version of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel via PPM as follows:

    C:\> ppm
    PPM> set repository tmp http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/perl
    PPM> install Spreadsheet-WriteExcel
    PPM> quit
    C:\>
[download]

Occasionally this won't work and you will have to do the following:     PPM>install http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/perl/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel.ppd

it seems the tar.gz is faulty for Spreadsheet::Write. I had a problem in both the Perl Tar module and WinZip.

That's strange. I've never had problems installing the module via perl -MCPAN -e shell.

Also, I can untar the distro using Unix tar or WinZip without problems.

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John.