I appreciate the suggestion, but I'm afraid it pulls me away from the goal I'm trying to achieve (which I should have stated more clearly).

The application only exists to take an excel spreadsheet generated by a user (who need not know anything about perl), refresh the data (which perl need not know anything about), and distribute the resulting report. It actually prints it to a postscript file, converts that to a pdf, and distributes the pdf in most cases. I didn't include this in the original post because I was afraid it would be a distraction to my main question.

Given the silence of the monks, I'm guessing that excel doesn't provide a method of returning errors back through OLE to the calling program.

Again, i appreciate your suggestions. Unfortunately they're just not quite what I'm looking for.

In reply to Re^4: Capturing excel macro errors by jrsimmon
in thread Capturing excel macro errors by jrsimmon

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