Understood. I had used double quotes in the past, but got tired of escaping the period. I tried your version, and I tried this as well: 
use Win32::OLE::Const "Microsoft Office \.* Object Library";  # mso co
+nstants

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but no joy. No complaint from Win32::OLE, but no msoFalse defined...

I forget how I figured out that I needed to put in the exact version number (11.0, 12.0, or 14.0), but that is the only way I have been able to get this to work. I tried to figure out a way to select the right version in a BEGIN-END block, but I lack the perlMonkishness to get that going.

I can live with one of two solutions (either modify the script for the specific host version of Office -- yuck); or the way it is now (looks ugly as sin, but seems to work; and if multiple versions of office exist, I'll take my chances.

In reply to Re^3: How to use win32::OLE with multiple versions of Microsoft Office? by frida
in thread How to use win32::OLE with multiple versions of Microsoft Office? by frida

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