Maybe you need to add an explicit Close that does the same thing as DESTROY. That way you could have one at a time open, which might avoid problems. As an example, I changed your test code to this:
use Excel;

{
my $s = Excel->new("here.xls");

$s->print("one", "Hello World\nThis\tis\ta\ttest\n");
$s->print("one", join("\t", 1 ..10));
$s->print("one", "bye\n");
$s->print("one", join("\n",3 .. 5) . scalar(localtime));

$s->print("two", join("\n",13 .. 25) . scalar(localtime));
$s->print("eight", join("\n",13 .. 20) . scalar(localtime));
}
{
my $t = Excel->new("c:/temp/there.xls");
$t->print("two", join("\n",13 .. 25) . scalar(localtime));
}

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and it worked perfectly. (Notice the braces around the two sections.) Putting the sections in blocks like that forces DESTROY to be called before the next new is called.

Guildenstern
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In reply to (Guildenstern) REx2: Win32::OLE and Excel by Guildenstern
in thread Win32::OLE and Excel by nop

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