Monks,
I'm using Win32::OLE to do some excel work...
I have a worksheet which i need to sort.
However, I do not want to sort the entire sheet.
I only want to sort columns M & N.
I recorded a macro to see what excel does..here's that code

Columns("M:N").Select
    Selection.Sort Key1:=Range("M2"), Order1:=xlAscending, Header:=xlY
+es, _
        OrderCustom:=1, MatchCase:=False, Orientation:=xlTopToBottom, 
+_
        DataOption1:=xlSortNormal
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Here is what I do with my Perl code for it (snippet)

$Range_new1 = $Sheet->Range("m2");
$Range_new2 = $Sheet->Range("n2");
$Excel->Selection->Sort({Key1 => $Range_new1,
            Order1 => xlAscending,
            Key2 => $Range_new2,
            Header=>xlYes,
            OrderCustom=>1,
            MatchCase => False,
            DataOption1 => xlSortNormal});
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However, this does not sort only columns M & N but the whole sheet... What am I missing?
Is there any function to select only columns M & N???
Update::
I wanted to know how to put 'Columns("M:N").Select' in PERL OLE and only sort those 2 columns and leave the other columns as it is.
This is my updated code

$Range_new1 = $Sheet->Range("m:n");
$Range_new2 = $Sheet->Range("n2");
$Excel->Selection->Sort({Key1 => $Range_new1,
                         Order1 => xlAscending,
                         #Key2 => $Range_new2,
                         Header=>xlYes,
                         OrderCustom=>1,
                         MatchCase => False,
                         DataOption1 => xlSortNormal});
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