I am having trouble saving an Excel spreadsheet. With Perl I take the steps
1. Take a copy of a spreadhsheet that has some cells already filled in
2. Use this copied file with 
$excel = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');
$workbook = $excel->Workbooks->Open<copied file name>)
$worksheet = $excel->ActiveWorkbook->Worksheets(“sheet1”);

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3. Fill in the data I need
4. Try and save the edited copy of the spreadsheet with 
$excel->Workbooks(1)->SaveAs(<copied file name>)   or ($excel_res = 0,
+ $ew_message = "Could not save spreadsheet <copied file name>);
$en_num = Win32::GetLastError();
$en_err = "message <" . Win32::FormatMessage($en_num) . "> number <" .
+ $en_num . ">";
$ew_message = "<" . $ew_message . "> is just after saving part file\n"
+ .
        "system error text <$en_err>\n";

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The MSDOS screen gives the following contents for $ew_message
<Could not save spreadsheet <copied file name> is just after saving part file system error text <message <> number <317>>
I also get an Excel message saying Do want to save the changes you made to <copied file name> with three buttons for Save, Don’t Save and Cancel.
If I open the copied spreadsheet (before I use any of the message buttons) I get the message that the file is Locked for Editing.
If I use the Save button I get the edited spreadsheet that I want.
What changes do I have to make so that the spreadsheet will be saved as I would like it to?

In reply to Excel SaveAS problem by merrymonk

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