Greetings krazken,

I have not used Excel in a while. Are these check boxes actually VB controls? If so take a look at How to convert a VBA macro to Perl from the ActiveState docs. You could create a macro to query these values and the convert it to perl using the information linked to in the above document. Also the Where do I find documentation for the object models? may be of use should you wish to drive Excel via Win32::OLE.

Hope this helps.

Martin