I have a ‘remote’ user who is using Excel 10 on a Windows 7 PC.
Below is the Perl code that opens an Excel worksheet and adds text to cell B2.
use strict "vars";
use Win32;
use OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const "Microsoft Excel";
my ($excel, $workbook, $sheet);
$excel = CreateObject OLE "Excel.Application";
print "excel <$excel>\n";
$excel -> {Visible} = 1;
$workbook = $excel    -> Workbooks -> Add;
print "workbook <$workbook>\n";
$sheet    = $workbook -> Worksheets("Sheet1");
$sheet                -> Activate;
print "sheet <$sheet>\n";
$sheet -> Range("B2") -> {Value} = 1234;

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The ‘output’ to my PC where I am using Excel 7 on windows XP is next.

Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1.2600
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
excel <OLE=HASH(0x183f828)>
workbook <OLE=HASH(0x183fa58)>
sheet <OLE=HASH(0x183f9c8)>

On the Excel 10 PC the prints for excel and workbook are given and have a similar form to that I obtain.
However, the $sheet-> Activate fails with the message ‘Can’t call method “Activate” on an undefined value at …..
Can anyone tell me how this line (or perhaps the previous one) should be written for Excel 10?

In reply to Perl and Excel 10 by merrymonk

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