HI,thks for all u reply. What i meant was to open the .csv file in excel directly from perl without actually going into excel and open the file manually i.e.( after running the perl program, the excel program will be loaded with the .csv file which is saved in the perl program.) The .csv was saved inside perl because i have used perl to extract some data and i want to load and display this data in EXCEL automatically using perl. Thks once again.