Indeed this is a very basic question but I unable to find any official documentation of the Microsoft OLE Automation interface.
I would like to interract with Word and Excel through VBScript or Perl. I found plenty of examples on google but it would be much easier to get the full API documentation and it seems I cannot find anything on google even with these keywords: Microsoft, API, OLE, documentation, man, list of methods, library...
I am starting from this point:
my $excel= Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application')
Now where can I find all the available methods for this object ? Is there any official documentation somewhere ?
In Word/Excel etc Press Alt + F11 then F2. It's self documenting. Search on Word Object Model and VBA and Office Developer (there a whole web site section on MSDN). Hint try www.msdn.com/office
To your question, which is irrelevent to your problem. It is the the
The Component Object Model Specification
Draft Version 0.9, October 24, 1995
Microsoft Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation
Copyright © 1992-95 Microsoft Corporation.
That is the base standard. As modified since then it is in the COM topic in the Windows Platform SDK.
You won't get far, if you instantiate an object named ($)word with Excel(.Application).
To get all necessary information use the Help and Object Catalog of the Word, Excel, ... applications.
