Hi monks, i am trying to write simple perl script using win32 ole which will iterate over all M$ word paragraphs (any text that ends with a hard return) and print only those paragraphs that matches the specified condition. The problem is that I need to access font size property. It seems to me that this property is set only once in first paragraph and later is not updated. Please see code with comments

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';
#$Win32::OLE::CP = CP_UTF8;
binmode STDOUT, 'encoding(utf8)';

# OPEN FILE SPECIFIED AS FIRST ARGUMENT
my $fname=$ARGV[0];
my $fnameFullPath = `cygpath.exe -wa $fname`;
$fnameFullPath =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;
$fnameFullPath =~ s/\s*$//;
unless (-e $fnameFullPath) { print "Error: File did not exists\n"; exi
+t 1;}

my $Word = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Word.Application')
    || Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application','Quit')
    or die Win32::OLE->LastError();

$Word->{'Visible'} = 0;
my $doc = $Word->Documents->Open($fnameFullPath);
my $paragraphs = $doc->Paragraphs() ;
my $enumerate = new Win32::OLE::Enum($paragraphs);

while(defined(my $paragraph = $enumerate->Next())) {

    my $text = $paragraph->{Range}->{Text};
    my $sel = $Word->Selection;
    my $font = $sel->Font;
    
    # THIS DOES NOT WORK CORRECTLY BECAUSE $Word->Selection IS SET ONL
+Y ONCE (FOR FIRST PARAGRAPH)
    # IS THERE ANY METHOD HOW TO FORCE Selection TO POINT WHERE ACTUAL
+ $paragraph IS POINTING ?
    if ($font->{Size} == 24){
        print "Text: ", $text, "\n";
        print "Font Bold: ", $font->{Bold}, "\n";
        print "Font Italic: ", $font->{Italic}, "\n";
        print "Font Name: ", $font->{Name}, "\n";
        print "Font Size: ", $font->{Size}, "\n";        # Size('9pt')
+;
        print "=========\n";
    }    
}

$Word->ActiveDocument->Close ;
$Word->Quit;
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Thank you for any idea

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