I just migrated to MS Office 2013 and I have problem with adding comments to Excel spreadsheet via Perl script.

My old code looked a bit like:

my $comment;
$comment = $wsheet->Cells($row_num,$col_num)->{Comment};
if(defined $comment)
{
    $wsheet->Cells($row_num,$col_num)->{Comment}->Text({Text => $cell_
+value});
}
else
{
    $wsheet->Cells($row_num,$col_num)->AddComment($cell_value);
    $comment = $wsheet->Cells($row_num,$col_num)->{Comment};
    if(!defined $comment) {
        print STDERR "Could not add comment in row $row_num and column
+ $col_num\n";
    }
}

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and it worked fine in Office 2003 but on Office 2013 I get: 
Win32::OLE(0.1709) error 0x80010105: "The server threw an exception"
    in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "AddComment" at olelib.pl line 2834.
Could not add comment in row 13 and column 6

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Line 2834 is where AddComment is being called. This is confusing since I recorded the macro when adding comment and I get VB code virtually identical to the code on which I based that Office 2003 implementation. TIA for any pointers/info.

In reply to Win32::OLE AddComment method and MS Office 2013 by woland99

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