Hi everyone,

I am trying to acces a Word document that is running on another PC. I use the Win32::OLE module for this.

The following line of code works well when I run my script locally : 

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

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But it doesn't work when I add an IP address from another PC : 
my $word = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject(['10.1.5.35','Word.Application'
+]);

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The error message here reads " Bad string reference ". Did I make some kind of syntax error here ? I can't be that far off because the following line works just fine : 
$word = Win32::OLE->new(['10.1.5.35','Word.Application']);

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2005-02-28 Janitored by Arunbear - added code tags, as per Monastery guidelines

In reply to Win32::OLE question by Koen_V

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