I think I'm right to say your trying to read through what VB would call a collection. If this is the case you should use the Win32::OLE::Enum module. This allows you to extract a collection of objects and then iterate through them. 
use strict;

use Win32::OLE;

# Open excel.
my $excel = Win32::OLE->new("Excel.Application", 'Quit');

# Create a workbook.
my $excelBook = $excel->Workbooks->Add;

# Enumerate the sheets in the workbook (sheet1,sheet2,sheet3 by defaul
+t).
my $sheets = Win32::OLE::Enum->new($excelBook->Worksheets());

#Iterate the sheets using the All() function.

foreach my $sheet ($sheets->All())
{
        print $sheet->name() . "\n";
}

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No error handling I know but it gives you an idea and I've run this on NT4.0 with Office 98.

In reply to RE: OLE VB to Perl by barndoor
in thread OLE VB to Perl by Mike McClellan

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