"Thanks for your references. And I appreciate your advice."

You're welcome.

"Which I keyed as [http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=153486|Win32::OLE and Excel - Tips and Tricks]"

PerlMonks has (I believe) six domain names: three TLDs (.org, .net, .com) each +/- the "www.". When you specify the domain name in a link, you'll often take readers to another domain that they're not logged in to: at best, this is a nuisance we'd all prefer to do without; it can cause various issues which then require further effort to rectify; it might result in angry responses which is probably something you'd prefer to do without. By not specifying the domain, the readers remain on the domain they were logged in to (and all is good). Anyway, that's the reason for not doing it; you appear to have picked up how to do it correctly (e.g. with id://). You might also be interested in: "How do I link to a node on this site by number?".

One further point on this: you don't need to use the exact page title as the "link text". Often, when referring to another node in the same thread, I might write something like this markup: 

... in addition to [id://nnnn|the very good points] already made by [M
+onkName] (above) ...

[download]
"I hope I have not overstayed my welcome!"

I hope so too. :-) Otherwise, I've wasted an awful lot of time providing advice and information for future reference to someone who isn't coming back and therefore won't need any of it. :-(

Seriously, we all make mistakes when starting out: don't worry about it. You're clearly making an effort to do the right thing and that is appreciated.

-- Ken

In reply to Re^3: Suggested improvement to the 'Permission Denied' page by kcott
in thread Suggested improvement to the 'Permission Denied' page by BramVanOosterhout

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