I have gone through that article when i started learning. But did you see the link that i have given for python?? You really think that is comparable with the tips and tricks mentioned in that site?? Atleast a beginner would not think so. And regarding the microsoft documentation, a beginner might find it difficult to "Perlify" methods that microsoft provides in their sites. Once you get used to the syntax and get used to the module it would prove itself to be easy, (which is the case with me now) but when i started out i couldn't get much help from that documentation

regards,

The tools you linked to are not really comparable to the Microsoft Excel API (as exposed through Win32::OLE). They are more similar to Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, which also come with examples.