Since you're on a Windows box and are already using Win32::OLE, you already have a tool that will give tons of information about Excel and Office data types and constants. The Win32::OLE includes an OLE "browser". It shows all kinds of information, but it's based in VB. If you got the process down of converting macros (recorded in VB) to Perl, you should be able to "convert" the information you find from the OLE browser into Perl code for whatever your developing.

An alternative approach is to not even worry about what are the values of the constants are. I usually add use Win32::OLE::Const "Microsoft Excel .* Object Library"; and use Win32::OLE::Const "Microsoft Word .* Object Library"; to my code, which allows me to directly use the Excel and Office constants without having to decode what their value is.

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