Thanks for your feedback, this helped me save my .xls file as a tab
delimited text file. The link to the MSDN Excel 2007 doc is very
helpful. Sorry about the formatting, let me know if there are any more
issues.
I also would like to thank graff and cbu for their reply.
After spending upwards of three days trying to figure this out,
I should have asked a question sooner. Hopefully I can become
proficient at Perl enough to help others.
A modest donation has been sent to the Perl Monks.

I did run into an issue where a dialog prompt comes up asking if I
want to save the .txt file. I remembered another question I came
across while trying to solve the format issue and was able to leverage
off of it to eliminate the dialog prompt by adding
"$Excel->{DisplayAlerts} = "False";" to the script.

<s
#    Saves C:\\work\\perl_WinOle\\sym_text_testdoc.xls as a text or
#    MSDOS text formatted document. (Tab delimited)

use Win32;
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';
#$file = "C:\\work\\perl_WinOle\\test.csv";
$OutFile = "C:\\work\\perl_WinOle\\sym_text_testdoc.txt";
my $Excel = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');
my $xl = Win32::OLE::Const->Load($Excel);
#$Excel->{'Visible'} = 1;         # if you want to see what's going on

my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open( "C:\\work\\perl_WinOle\\sym_text_t
+estdoc.xls" );

$Book->Activate();
$Excel->{DisplayAlerts} = "False";
$Book->SaveAs($OutFile, xlTextMSDOS);
#$Excel->{DisplayAlerts} = "False";
$Book->Close();
$Excel->Quit();
e>

Thanks for your help and have a great weekend.
Steve Bell
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