in reply to Error while opening .pptx file

Adding some <code> ... </code> tags, it looks like this:
use strict; use warnings; use Win32::OLE; use Win32::OLE::Const qw( Microsoft.PowerPoint ); use Win32::OLE::Enum; $Win32::OLE::Warn = 3; my $app = get_powerpoint(); $app->{Visible} = 1; my $presentation = $app->Presentations->Open('strMgrErr.pptx'); sub get_powerpoint { my $app; eval { $app = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('PowerPoint.Application' +) }; die "$@\n" if $@; unless ( defined $app ) { $app = Win32::OLE->new( 'PowerPoint.Application', sub { $_[0]- +>Quit } ) or die sprintf( "Cannot start PowerPoint: '%s'\n", Win32::OLE->Last +Error ); } return $app; }
When I run your code I get the same error because --of course-- I do not have the strMgrErr.pptx file on my system.

Replacing the file-name with a valid path-and-file-name, the code runs as expected.

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