Have you used the ActiveState OLE Browser? I've had to use Win32::OLE to automate some Word events en masse, but nothing this complicated (plus I cheated..I used a word template file and navigated around it using bookmarks), and when trying to RTFM on my own, I decided to use the browser. I thought it was overall pretty lousy, there was absolutely no documentation for the libraries, just class/method/property names. Are these tools much better? If so, I think it would be very useful to other monks using Win32.

As for the original question, I'd agree..poke around the OLE library, also perhaps the Win32::API documentation, it would be a whole lot messier, but if you truly, absolutely, positively need it done, it may be the only way.