note strat <p>I think the error is earlier. If you add the following lines to your code, it will tell you where:</p> <code> use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel'; # instead of the constants Win32::OLE->Option( Warn => 3 ); </code> <p>something seems to be wrong at CreatePivotTable</p> <code> $_app_object->ActiveWorkbook->PivotCaches->Add({SourceType => xlDa +tabase, SourceData => 'Sheet1!R1C1:R4C3'})->CreatePivotTable({TableDe +stination => 'Sheet1!R8C3', TableName => 'PivotTable1', DefaultVersio +n => xlPivotTableVersion10}); </code> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-123953"> <P> Best regards,<BR> perl -e "s>>*F>e=>y)\*martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32" </div></div> 651561 651678