Zero_Flop is right about the macros. If, however, you can't convert it you can always (as a possible last resort) create the macro in Word and then run it with a Perl command.

• Create and name the macro in word
• Declare it at the top of your code
  package MACRO-NAME;
• When you need the action from the macro, you call it in perl like this:

  $Word->Documents->Open("$dir\\$file") or die "Can't open ", Win32::OLE
  +->LastError());
          $Word->Run("MACRO-NAME");
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This has saved me some time on some hurry-up projects where I didn't have success converting the VBA directly to Perl.