Hello Monks,
well, I am still having issues with this script I am trying to write. The double quotes following the 'QA' in the output I believe is responsible for not allowing excel to find the dynamically created file thus generating a file not found error... any suggestions on the matter? Here is a snippet of the script:

my $app = '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\excel.exe"';
my $arg = '"C:\Documents and Settings\my.name\My Documents\My Company\
+QA\"' . $newFilename;

#system("$app $arg");
print $app . "\n";
print $arg;
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My output = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\excel.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\my.name\My Documents\My Company\QA\"TestingWorksheet_07232009.xlsx

Your quote is misplaced for your arg

I am not following you ikegami. Where would the quote need to be?