Hi, I have the following code that takes my input string ($word) and returns and prints a list of synonyms from Microsoft Word: 
#!perl -w

# Uses
use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const;

# Create MSWord object and load constants
my $MSWord = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', 'Quit') or 
die "Could not load MS Word\n";
my $wd=Win32::OLE::Const->Load($MSWord);

# Word and language to search for
my $word="quick";
my $language=$wd->{wdEnglishUS};

# Get synonyms from MSWord
my $synonyms=$MSWord->SynonymInfo(
{Word => $word, LanguageID => $language})->SynonymList(1);

# Print them out...
foreach (@{ $synonyms }) { print $_."\n" };

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In the above example $word="quick" and the script works fine; however, if I were to use a word for which there are no synonyms in MS Word (eg. $word="xxx"), then when the script runs it returns with this error: 
OLE exception from "Microsoft Word":

One of the values passed to this method or property is out of range.

Win32::OLE(0.1403) error 0x800a16d3
in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "SynonymList" at C:\syn.pl line 18

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I'm not sure how to handle such an error. Ideally, I would like the script to just print out "No synonym suggestions". Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Adam

In reply to Problem using Win32::OLE with MS Word by adam2005

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