I ran your code, without the macro, and with the hashref, and it saved correctly as a Word binary document. I also fixed the line $xfn .= "\.doc"

use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';;

my $xfile = "C:/Documents and Settings/jim/My Documents/perlmonks_exam
+ples/temp.txt";

$word = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Word.Application')
     || Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application');

$mydoc = $word->Documents->Open($xfile);

#$word->Run("tskedfmt");

($xfn) = $xfile =~ m/(.*)\.txt$/;

$xfn .= ".doc";
$mydoc->SaveAs( {FileName => "$xfn", FileFormat => wdFormatDocument} )
+;
$word->{Visible} = 1;

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- j

In reply to Re: "type mismatch" in Word by jimbojones
in thread "type mismatch" in Word by esr

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