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My real problem is that I have a need to put a large chunk of text into an Excel worksheet, and have it intelligently wrap to one page wide and autosize to fit vertically.

I figured I would do this with a textbox. Silly me, it won't make one. Can anyone either help me with my textbox troubles, or show me another way to format a cell gigantically full of text?

Here's some snippets: 

use Win32::OLE qw(in with HRESULT);
use Win32::OLE::Variant;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Office 10.0 Object Library';
use Win32::OLE::Const 'OLE Automation';
my $Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')
    || Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');
$Excel->{DisplayAlerts}=0; 
my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Add();
$Book->SaveAs($excelfile);
my $Sheet = $Book->Worksheets("Sheet1");
$Sheet->Activate();       
$Sheet->{Name} = "DidItInPerl";
#stolen right from cacharbe!

my $TextBox = $Sheet->Shapes->AddTextBox('msoTextOrientationHorizontal
+', '10','10','0','0');

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Gives me this error:

Win32::OLE(0.1502) error 0x80020005: "Type mismatch" in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "AddTextBox" argument 1

I tried playing with the use Win32::OLE Const '$crap', but I'm just guessing there.

In reply to Win32::OLE, Excel, textboxes by finni

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