note HelenCr <p>Khen1950fx: thanks for you reply. But it seems that your solution is a workaround the problem. If, on the original system, everything is working fine, why should I say?: <code>no strict qw/subs/;</code></p><p>In my opinion, we should try to find out why <code> use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';</code> is not taking an effect on the XP system. For example, maybe <code>XlExcel8</code> is defined for Excel 2010 (which is installed on the original system), and has a different name in Excel 2003 (installed on the Windows XP system)? (Just an example)?</p> 985596 985598