Hello, I have included the sub function that handles the excel file. The nasty thing is that I am facing this error only when running with limmited access rights (basic user rights). So I believe that the perl script is not the blame, because when I call it from batch it works fine.

sub generate_reports
{
LogStart();
$Excel = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', sub {$_[0]->Quit;});
###### handling of files
my @file_parts = split (/\//,$warning_files[0]);
my $file = $file_parts[-1];
chomp($file); $file =~ s/\r//g;    
$file =~ s/\.txt//g;
my $xls_filename =  "$xls_files[0]";
open XLSFILE, $xls_filename or my $flag_die = 1;
close XLSFILE;
    if ($flag_die eq 1) 
    {
printf ("\nDEBUG: Excel is: $Excel");

printf ("\nDEBUG: template_path is: $template_path");
#$template_path =~ s/\r//g;        
#$template_path =~ s/^\s*//g;             
#$template_path =~ s/\s*$//g;        
#$template_path =~ s/\//\\/g;          
#printf ("\nDEBUG: template_path (modified) is: $template_path\n");

$Excelbook = $Excel->Workbooks->Open("$template_path.\\filereport.xls"
+);
printf ("\nDEBUG: xls_filename is: $xls_filename\n");
#$xls_filename =~ s/\r//g;    
#$xls_filename =~ s/^\s*//g;         
#$xls_filename =~ s/\s*$//g;         
#$xls_filename =~ s/\//\\/g;               
#printf ("\nDEBUG: xls_filename (modified) is: $xls_filename\n\n");
printf ("\nDEBUG: Excelbook is: $Excelbook\n");
$Excelbook->SaveAs($xls_filename);
    } else {           # file exists -> open it for update
        if (!(-w $xls_filename)) 
          {
           printf ("\n$xls_filename is write-protected and can't be cr
+eated.");
            die;
          }
$xls_filename =~ s/\r//g;     # remove control characters
$xls_filename =~ s/^\s*//g;   # Kill leading blanks
$xls_filename =~ s/\s*$//g;   # Kill trailing blanks
$xls_filename =~ s/\//\\/g;   # replace "/" by "\"
$Excelbook = $Excel->Workbooks->Open($xls_filename);
    }
my $firstSheet = $Excelbook->Worksheets(2); # activate warning sheet
$firstSheet->Activate();
$Report_Sheet = $firstSheet;
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