Thanks Martin, but that's not quite what I'm after--

In using the macro as a table of contents, the idea is for an end user to be able to click on links in the Excel sheet and have the active sheet changed appropriately. At this point the Perl script is no longer running.

I cobbled together a small version of what I'm trying to do as an example -- my problem is that I can't link to the chart in the TOC:

use strict;
use warnings;

use Cwd;
use Win32::OLE;

my $xlApp = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application');
$xlApp->{DisplayAlerts} = 0;
$xlApp->{ScreenUpdating} = 0;

my $xlBook = $xlApp->Workbooks->Add();
$xlBook->SaveAs(cwd . "/example.xls");
print "Saved to " . cwd . "/example.xls";

my $page1 = $xlBook->Worksheets->Add();
$page1->{Name} = "Page One";
$page1->Move({After => $xlBook->Sheets($xlBook->Sheets->{Count})});

my $page2 = $xlBook->Worksheets->Add();
$page2->{Name} = "Page Two";
$page2->Move({After => $xlBook->Sheets($xlBook->Sheets->{Count})});

my $chart1 = $xlBook->Charts->Add();
$chart1->{Name} = "Chart One";
$chart1->Move({After => $xlBook->Sheets($xlBook->Sheets->{Count})});

my $tocSheet = $xlBook->Worksheets->Add();
$tocSheet->{Name} = "Table of Contents";
$tocSheet->Move({Before => $xlBook->Worksheets(1)});

$tocSheet->Hyperlinks->Add({Anchor => $tocSheet->Cells(1, 1),
                            Address => "",
                            SubAddress => "'Page One'!A1",
                            TextToDisplay => "Page One"});

$tocSheet->Hyperlinks->Add({Anchor => $tocSheet->Cells(2, 1),
                            Address => "",
                            SubAddress => "'Page Two'!A1",
                            TextToDisplay => "Page Two"});

#Need some way to link to Chart One here...

$xlBook->Worksheets("Sheet1")->Delete if($xlBook->Worksheets("Sheet1")
+);
$xlBook->Worksheets("Sheet2")->Delete if($xlBook->Worksheets("Sheet2")
+);
$xlBook->Worksheets("Sheet3")->Delete if($xlBook->Worksheets("Sheet3")
+);

$xlBook->Save();
$xlBook->Close();

$xlApp->Quit();

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Sorry it's kinda messy, I blazed through it. Let me know if I can clarify better.

EDIT: In fact, if there's a way to do something like this in Perl, that would be perfect.

In reply to Re^2: Creating Excel Macros from Perl by ChumpChief
in thread Creating Excel Macros from Perl by ChumpChief

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