Hi monks. i'm trying to write an application that uses perl to open up excel and then transfers control over to the user until they close excel. i read the tutorial on OLE and excel and that helped, but i'm still having trouble. my code looks like this: 
use strict;
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';
use Win32::OLE::Variant;
use Win32::OLE::NLS qw(:LOCALE :DATE);
$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3;

my $excelfile = $ARGV[0];
my $Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')
        || Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');

$Excel->{'Visible'} = 1;
$Excel->{DisplayAlerts} = 0;
my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Add();
my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open($excelfile);

while(1){}

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this code correctly opens up excel but unfortunately freezes and never refreshes the screen to display the file. what more do I need? thanks, Michael

In reply to Excel and OLE by Anonymous Monk

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