What I thought to be simple has turned out to be far from it. I’m using Win32::OLE together with SOAP::Lite, and just trying to insert a blank line into an existing spreadsheet at row two.

My general syntax is OK, as I’m successfully writing to the XLS, and formatting data, but I cannot find away of simply inserting an empty row at row two.

Eg I have 

Title Row
Data1
Data2
Data3

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And I would like

Title Row

Data 1
Data2
Data3

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I’m doing stuff like this to write data 

 
$excel    = CreateObject OLE "Excel.Application";

    $workbook = $excel    -> Workbooks -> Open("$outxls");
    $sheet    = $workbook -> Worksheets(1) -> {Name};
    $sheet    = $workbook -> Worksheets($sheet);
    $sheet                -> Activate;


    $sheet->{Name} = "RVG Engines";

    my $lastrow = $sheet->UsedRange->Find({What=>"*",
SearchDirection=>xlPrevious, SearchOrder=>xlByRows})->{Row}
    if $sheet->UsedRange->{Count}>1;

    $lastrow += 1;
    $sheet -> Range("A$lastrow") -> {Value} = $date;
    $sheet -> Range("B$lastrow") -> {Value} = $daemons;
    $sheet -> Range("C$lastrow") -> {Value} = $engines;
$excel->{DisplayAlerts} = 0;
    $workbook->SaveAs($outxls);
    $excel->Quit

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Very many thanks for any help, Cheers Nigel

In reply to Perl OLE Excel - Insert Row by nleach

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