Thanks for checking anyway. I appreciate that. Probably my lack of knowledge in PerlScript running in .asp combined with not explaining myself well has resulted in a no solution yet for me. I'm still looking in to it. But just briefly I have asp running perlscript. i.e.

<%@ Language=PerlScript %>
<%
for($i=0; $i<=10; $i++) {
#
# my Perl code here
#
}
%>
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I use a lot of Perl modules on the asp pages in perlscript language Win32::ODBC etc.. and all works fine and I just can't understand why opening an excel application and writing to it should be any different. I'll keep going...hopefully in the right direction...just need to ask the right questions really....