In fact, automating Office applications is simple through the Macro Recorder functionality in them. You simply record a macro, do what you want to do, and then translate the generated Visual Basic code to Perl (which means mostly replacing . by ->).

Another solution would have been ooolib, but it dosen't support PowerPoint presentations yet. Automating OpenOffice.org (the program suite) is an ugly task as they expose an ugly underdocumented Java API as OLE objects instead of copying Microsoft and their Office object model. And the Macro Recorder for OpenOffice.org dosen't produce usable stuff, as it records to StarBasic instead.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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