I tried your solution and it worked beautifully but I get another puzzling error if Iadd the word "pieces" to the array. eg.

my @words=("quick","xxx","pieces");

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To hopefully get more of an indication of what the problem is, I uncommented your line:

Win32::OLE->Option(Warn => 0); # Ignore OLE Errors

The error I get when I run the script is this:

quick: rapid
quick: fast
quick: speedy
quick: swift
quick: nippy
xxx: Do not have any synonyms.
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:\adam2.pl line 22
Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at C:\adam2.pl line
+ 26.

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The thing is if I use the Thesaurus in MS Word directly on the word "pieces" it does return one entry, that being "piece".

Any idea why then the script reports that value as being out of range?

In reply to Re^2: Problem using Win32::OLE with MS Word by adambrad
in thread Problem using Win32::OLE with MS Word by adam2005

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