in reply to "type mismatch" in Word

Thanks for all the comments but I could not get the SaveAs to work as long as I used the <mumble> constant name. When I finally replaced the "wdFormatDocument" with its value of "0" it worked just fine. BTFSPLK! This is on an XP Pro system using Office 2003 and ActivePerl -- if this is helpful to anyone else.

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Re^2: "type mismatch" in Word
by esr (Scribe) on Dec 03, 2004 at 18:57 UTC
    Well, DUH! After I posted the last item I found the problem. I had included the line 
    use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';

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    but I had a typo in the line 
    use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';

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    However the error message "text mismatch" was certainly not obvious to me as an indicator of the problem. :-(
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