Very many thanks for the swift and detailed reply John. I use Win32::OLE rarely, and coming from a Unix background, my problem is that it seems neither intuitive, or easy to look up how to do something you haven’t done before. That may well be my own limitation though.

You’re correct that there is much missing from the snippet; I should have probably included less, to make that more obvious. I appreciate all your other comments and will be looking into them tomorrow in the office.

Cheers, Nigel