Hi, @dawn

I'm going to guess that the reason you've not have much response to your post is that no-one is familiar with the spellcheck application you're using.

A couple of things you could check, though:

  1. Does the Server.Spellcheck object actually support OLE automation?
  2. Can you automate it in VB(A|S) using the code you've written?

Our (my) ignorance of your spellchecker aside, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your code which would also account for the lack of replies. My advice would be: "try it in VBS and see if it works".

Oh, and Win32::OLE isn't perfect either. Some stuff that works in VBS and "runs" perfectly in perl doesn't actually "do" anything - but I've only seen that happen when trying to automate Outlook, so far.

HTH - Mark

PS: if the reference is a list doesn't that mean OLE will cast is as an Variant Array() or worse, a Collection?

In reply to Re: Win32::OLE (Variants by reference) by maa
in thread Win32::OLE (Variants by reference) by @dawn

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