I don't have Microsoft office at home, and only use Microsoft Windows at home for Steam. At work I threw together a quick example based on yours, something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';

$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3; # die on errors...
my $Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject
('Excel.Application') || Win32::OLE->new
('Excel.Application', 'Quit');
$Excel->{'Visible'} = 1;        #0 is hidden, 1 is visible
$Excel->Application->{DisplayAlerts} = 0;    #0 is hide alerts

my $book = "c:\\input.xls";
my $new = "c:\\output.txt";
   
my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open({FileName =>$book, ReadOnly => 1});

# open Excel file
my $Sheet = $Book->Worksheets(3);
$Sheet->Activate();

$Book->SaveAs({Filename => $new, FileFormat => xlText});
$Book->Close;
$Excel->Quit();

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Prior to running the script I populated c:\output.txt with "This is a test", and sheet three of the Excel workbook with "boohya!". After running the script the contents of c:\output.txt read "boohya!". For testing purposes I'm pretty sure I left Excel visible.

In reply to Re^3: Another Excel-OLE Question by marto
in thread Another Excel-OLE Question by mmittiga17

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