I'm attempting to modify an Excel spreadhsheet which spreadsheet has a merged cell at D8.

I wrote a small program which reads the format of D8 and writes some data back to D8 in a new sheet with that formatting: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use Smart::Comments;

use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::SaveParser;

# Open the template with SaveParser
my $parser   = new Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::SaveParser;
my $template = $parser->Parse('sat.xls');
warn "template:$template:";

my $sheet = 0;
my $workbook;

{
    # SaveAs generates a lot of harmless warnings about unset
    # Worksheet properties. You can ignore them if you wish.
    local $^W = 0;

    # Rewrite the file or save as a new file
    $workbook = $template->SaveAs('new.xls');
}

# Use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel methods
my $worksheet = $workbook->sheets(0);
my $row       = 7;
my $col       = 3;

# Get the format from the cell
my $format = $template->{Worksheet}[$sheet]->{Cells}[$row][$col]->{For
+matNo};
$worksheet->write( $row, $col => 'some_originating_entity', $format );

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However, the new sheet has all the merged cells unmerged.

Is there a way to preserve merged cells when updating/modifying cells in the template spreadsheet?

Both the program and the initial spreadsheet are here

In reply to Preserving merged cells when using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and ParseExcel by metaperl

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