Need help translating this powershell ole MS Word script to perl. I've scoured the web for the answer, you're my only hope. I'm especially interested in how boolean values are handled, and in the invocation of Selection.Find.Execute(). I know this might be more of a Word question (or a Win32::OLE question) than a perl question. I've tried to find the answer everywhere I can think of before coming to the Monks. Thanks - Toolsmith 
$comments = @'
Script name: Replace-WordText.ps1
Created on: Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Author: Kent Finkle
Purpose: How can I use Windows Powershell to Find and Replace Text in 
+a Microsoft Word Document?
'@

$objWord = New-Object -comobject Word.Application 
$objWord.Visible = $True

$objDoc = $objWord.Documents.Open("C:\Scripts\Test.doc")
$objSelection = $objWord.Selection

$FindText = "Contoso"
$MatchCase = $False
$MatchWholeWord = $False
$MatchWildcards = $False
$MatchSoundsLike = $False
$MatchAllWordForms = $False
$Forward = $True
$Wrap = $wdFindContinue
$Format = $False
$wdReplaceNone = 0
$ReplaceWith = ""
$wdFindContinue = 1

$a = $objSelection.Find.Execute($FindText,$MatchCase,$MatchWholeWord, 
+`
    $MatchWildcards,$MatchSoundsLike,$MatchAllWordForms,$Forward,`
    $Wrap,$Format,$ReplaceWith,$wdReplaceNone)
    
If ($objSelection.Find.Found)
{
    Write-Host("The search text was found.") } Else {
    Write-Host("The search text was not found.") }

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