I have the following code, which WORKS for a word file, but crashes for a similar word file (both docx) 
use strict;
use Excel::Writer::XLSX;
 use Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX;
use Carp qw( croak );
use Cwd qw( abs_path );
use Path::Class;
 use Win32::OLE qw(in);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';
...

my $path=....;

    my $word =Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application','Quit');   
     my $word_file = file(abs_path($path)); 
 
    my $doc = $word->{Documents}->Open("$word_file");
print "after doc\n";
    my $tables = $word->ActiveDocument->{Tables};
 
    for my $table (in $tables) {
 
my $numrows=$table->Rows->Count; 
 $main::numcols=$table->Columns->Count; 
 
# Iterate through rows and count columns
foreach my $rownum (1 .. $table->Rows->Count) {
    my $row = $table->Rows->Item($rownum);# code crashes here

...

}
}

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The code crashes as indicated with the message

Win32::OLE(0.1712) error 0x8002000e: "Invalid number of parameters" in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "Item" at C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/Devel/ptkdb.pm line 2658.

When I try to debug with ptkdb it crashes as soon as I ask for a listing of $doc or $table How do I go about debugging this??

In reply to WIn32::OLE debug by Anonymous Monk

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