I would like to perform a mail merge with Word 2007 and a tab delimited text file using Perl. I have tried the code below but all it does is create a copy of the Word template without any merge taking place. I think I'm missing something somewhere as I am not well versed in Perl. When I do the merge manually it works fine. Can someone help me out?

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE ;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';

my $sourcefile='C:\Users\Carl\Documents\AddressMergeTXT.txt';
my $mergefile='C:\Users\Carl\Documents\Merge.docx';
my $template = 'C:\Users\Carl\Documents\MergeLetter.docx';


my $Word= Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', 'Quit');
$Word->Documents->Open($template);
$Word->ActiveDocument->MailMerge->OpenDataSource($sourcefile);


$Word->ActiveDocument->SaveAs($mergefile);

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Thanks in advance for any and all help, Carl

In reply to Mail Merge with Word 2007 and Perl by cmiller2005

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