1. First step turn STDOUT buffering off
$|=1; #put at top of code
This allows error messages and normal prints to appear in the order of execution.

2. You have one doc that works and one that doesn't.
Add error checking on the opens and new operations.
my $word =Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application','Quit') or die "blah$!";
my $doc = $word->{Documents}->Open("$word_file") or die "bla2$!";

3. Add some prints for each variable - look for something weird like undef value

Update:
From your description, it looks like tabler 1 in the failing doc is what is failing.
Try cut and paste the table that works from doc 1 to doc 2.
Again make sure the open worked. you could conceiveably get your error if the Word doc didn't open.

Do both docs render ok on the screen? Can you print them without problems?

It is possible with the drawing tools to make something that looks like a table, but is not a table in the Word sense.

In reply to Re: WIn32::OLE debug by Marshall
in thread WIn32::OLE debug by Anonymous Monk

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