in reply to Unable to grok Win32::OLE

Take a look at "Win32::ole and MSWord" by Kenny (Obviously, a fellow former COBOL programmer).

His code demonstrates how to create and format a table in ms word. Your requirements are the reverse of this, but you should be able to glean a lot of information on how to access (set) the attributes, and the names of some important attributes.

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