I'm trying to use Perl's Win32::OLE module (via Dave Roth's excellent book) to automate a couple tasks I need to repeatedly perform on some Word documents. However, the book (and most web examples) tends to use Excel for examples, so I am not sure how to copy and paste effectively with the Tables collection object.

Here is a snippet of my code:

my $originalDoc = $MSWord->Documents->Open('C:\Perl\testDocument.doc')
+;
my $newDoc = $MSWord->Documents->Add;
my $selection = $MSWord->Selection(); # this may be spurious

my $count = int( $originalDoc->Tables()->{Count} );
my $range = $originalDoc->Tables()->Range( { Start => $originalDoc->Ta
+bles(1)->{Range}->{Start},
                                             End   => $originalDoc->Ta
+bles($count)->{Range}->{End}
                                           } );
$range->Copy();
$newDoc->Range()->Paste();

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I'm getting a rather strange 'not enough storage to complete this action' error. How can I properly copy a range of tables from $originalDoc to $newDoc?

The original code used Paragraphs, not Tables, so I assume some of the bugs are artifacts from that code (or more likely my non-understanding of that code).

In reply to How can I copy and paste a range of tables in Word with Win32::OLE? by romandas

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