Could it be that Win32::OLE doesn't know the Word constants? e.g. wdDoNotSaveChanges

#!C:/ActivePerl/bin/perl.exe -w
use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
my $word_app = Win32::OLE->new("Word.Application") or 
   die ("Didn't create Word App.\n");
   
my $file="F:/test.doc";
my $word_file = $word_app->Documents->Open($file) or 
   die ("Didn't manage to create a document object.\n");
   
print "File $file has " . $word_file->Words->Count .
      " words in it.\n";
$word_file->Close(0); #SaveChanges:=False
$word_app->Quit; #SaveChanges not needed as files closed.

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Seems to work fine. (Even if Document.Words.Count isn't what I thought :-) Do ALT+F11 in Word for the VB Help/Designer.

In reply to Re: OLE word problem by Anonymous Monk
in thread OLE word problem by banduwgs

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