I have a large perl script which runs on Windows. I use this invocation: 
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft.Word';    # wd  constants

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To gain access to mso constants, I need this: 
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Office';

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by experiment, I have found that this does not return mso constants; instead, I get dbo constants, at least on my Windows 7 (x64) perl environment (5.14.1). What does work is: 
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Office 11.0 Object Library'; # office
+ 2003

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However, this script runs with office 2003, 2007, or 2010 (substitue 12.0 or 14.0, and it will work). Right now, I insert 3 use statements in increasing order: 
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Office 11.0 Object Library';  # mso c
+onstants
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Office 12.0 Object Library';  # mso c
+onstants
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Office 14.0 Object Library';  # mso c
+onstants

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but this is ugly and causes nastygrams to be emitted by perl. Monks, what monk-magic would you suggest?

In reply to How to use win32::OLE with multiple versions of Microsoft Office? by frida

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