Ave PerlMonks,
(pls. forgive me: this is my very 1st posting here!)
I was looking several days in www for solution of the following problem:
while browsing multiple Excel files with Perls Win32::OLE on a WinXP-PC
my script does "cross-checks" with the contents of many cells
The problem sounds simple: the script does TOO much, that means it reads and checks also "Strikedout" cell-contents,
which should NOT be processed.
Here my QUESTION: how do I recognize these cells ?
( It must be something with the usage of the special Strikeout-Font )
BTW: Because I've written already many code using the Win32:OLE features,
I want to avoid to switch to other CPAN-modules.
In hope (&pray with you, that) there exists an easy function, which shows me the used Font of an Excel cell,
allowing me to skip wiped-out rows from the normal processing.
Any help is highly appreciated.

In reply to Excel Strikeout by ErwinWinter

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