I tried the Use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel but I get an error saying "Cant locate Spreadsheet/WriteExcel.pm", any idea what this is about? ---------------- Im trying to filter certain words in a text file by pushing all the lines that contain the word into an excel sheet. Now what I would like is for the word (that needed to be searched) to be highlighted in the excel sheet. Say for example, in a document I want to filter out the word "Complex" and push all the lines containing this word to an excel sheet. I want the word "Complex" to be highlighted in the Excel sheet. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My code is given below. 

print "Enter the filename\n";
$filename=<STDIN>;
print "Enter the identifier:\n";
$ident=<STDIN>; 
chomp($ident);
open FIN, $filename or warn("$filename $!");
open FOUT, ">result.xls" or warn ("result.xls $i");
while($line= <FIN>)
{
               if($line=~/$ident/)
           {         
           @flds = split(/\s+/, $line);
           $number= @flds;        
                      for($j=0;$j<=$number;$j++)
                             {
                               print FOUT $flds[$j], "\n";
                             }

                    print FOUT "*************NEXT ENTRY***************
+**", "\n";  
        }
}

print $ident;
print "LOG ANALYSIS FOUND IN FILE RESULT.XLS! \n";
close FIN;
close FOUT;

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