Well, that's progress--it sure 'nuff is a mistake¹, and fixing it gets rid of the error--but it still gives the wrong value! I'm manually checking spreadsheets to be sure, and it does look wrong.

¹Update: On checking the documentation, I now see that the original form of:

my $value = $cell->Value;

was correct--which explains why $value was turning up empty after the change! This is a dead end. Any more thoughts?

adamsj

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