If that's what is recorded, 'ActiveWindow' ne 'Worksheet' (your code uses Worksheet.Gridlines). You need to translate each object in VBA into the appropriate object in Perl. To help with the translation, either use the Object Browser in Excel, the OLE-Browser packaged with ActiveState's Perl, or search for Object Model in Excel's VBA help file.

Looking in the OLE-Browser for ActiveWindow, I see it is a property of the Application object. My application object is $excel in the following:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;

my $excel = Win32::OLE->CreateObject('Excel.Application', 'quit');
$excel->{Visible} = 1;
$excel->Workbooks->Add();
$excel->ActiveWindow->{DisplayGridlines} = 0; #gridlines disappear!
print "press enter...";
<STDIN>;

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Remember - if you are having problems, check the Object Model!

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Problem with Excel and Win32::OLE by bmann
in thread Problem with Excel and Win32::OLE by Streen

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