Filling tables in MS Word

pugmaster has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

For a large documentation project at work, I need to build and fill several hundred tables in MS Word with some data. Naturally, the idea of doing this manually just horrifies me. So I wanted to write a perl script to parse the data (the easy part), but can someone point me in the right direction to find the CPAN library which will allow me to stick the indivdual parsed data into the correct column, row combinations in an MS Word table.

thanks much

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Re: Filling tables in MS Word by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Apr 01, 2005 at 03:47 UTC
Write HTML and import it into Word. My wife's blog	[reply]
Re: Filling tables in MS Word by tlm (Prior) on Apr 01, 2005 at 00:07 UTC
If you can make do with Excel instead of Word, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is excellent. the lowliest monk	[reply]
Re: Filling tables in MS Word by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Apr 01, 2005 at 17:28 UTC
You're lucky that I've just written a module for creating Word documents. You're unlucky that I've not uploaded it to CPAN yet, I thought I'd write a few more tests first (for example for creating tables :) But I've put a release here for you: http://www.DarSerMan.com/Perl/CPAN/Win32-Word-Writer-0.01.zip You should note that there is no "put-this text in table cell at x, y", so you'll need to create all columns and rows in the table properly. You'll be the first user other than me, so please send any feedback my way (johanl(ÄT)DarSerMan.com). /J	[reply]