You don't tell us how the insertsymbol line failed. By using Google for document.insertsymbol, I found Win32::ole and MSWord, which seems to suggest that the method would be called InsertSymbol, and this seems also to be the usage in this Microsoft reference. To pass named arguments to a method call, the documentation says to use a hash reference. You also pass the string True for the Unicode parameter. That's certainly not wha the translation steps say. You should try passing a 1 or -1 as that parameter. So you should try the following method call, and maybe consider providing us with more exact information on how things fail for you so we can help you better:

$selection->InsertSymbol( { Font=> "Wingdings", CharacterNumber => -40
+63, Unicode => 1 });

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In reply to Re: InsertSymbol usage to modify Word document by Corion
in thread InsertSymbol usage to modify Word document by merrymonk

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