So you don't have trouble with freezepane?  Great I won't give up.

$TRUE is 1, tried using the following:

 = 1 ;
 = '1';
 = "1";
 = $TRUE;

Crashing is caused by the user having a copy of excel running, unrelat
+ed to the script, when the perl script is run. The involved files are
+ unique.

So it would be best to know that excel is already running before the s
+cript is run. I could error out nicely, instead of locking up an orph
+aned version of excel.
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