Why bother, Word will open text files? Why turn an elegant compact file into a bloated proprietary M$ *.doc file. If you make it a Word 2000+ file you will have turned a file that can be read by anyone into a file that can only be read by people who have Word 2000 or later installed. Wo betide those of us who have not bought a copy of Word since Word 95 which was about the last time a useful feature was added IMHO.

You can probably do it with Win32::OLE if you really want to, but why on earth would you bother? Rather like taking a Perl and turning it into a swine......

Update

For the record here is how to add text to a new word document using Win32::OLE. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader as to how to read the text file in (see perlman:open)....

use Win32::OLE;

# check if Word exists and is running
my $word = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Word.Application');
die "Word not Installed" if $@;

# start Word program instance if required or die if unable to
unless (defined $word) {
    $word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', sub { $_[0]->Quit; } )
+ or die 'Cannot start Word';
}

# hide/show the document
$word->{Visible} = 0;

# Create new document
my $d = $word->Documents->Add;
# define selection
my $s = $word->Selection;
#set lines to be written to document
my @lines = (
    "This is a test line\n",
    "This is second test Line\n",
    "This is the third line\n",
);

# add the lines of text
$s->TypeText($_) for @lines;

# save our object
$word->WordBasic->FileSaveAs("c:\\test.doc");

# undef our object out of existance
undef $word;
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cheers

tachyon

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