I read through the various topics about CGI and OLE but I still have some problems with this in my script. I want to open a new instance of word and add a new document

  my $word = Win32::OLE->new(["$IPAddress", 'Word.Application'])
  or $error = "$error Can't start Word";

$word->{'Visible'} = 1;

  my $doc =$word->Documents->Add 
    or $error ="$error Can't Add";
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This script works fine from the command prompt but nothing happens when I run it as part of a cgi script. I get no value in $error however so I assume that my acces and launch rights are not the problem. $IPAddress contains my PC's IP so this is probably not the problem either.

I use Win2000, ActivePerl 5.8 and Apache 2.

Edited by Chady -- added code tags.