my $Word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', 'Quit'); $Word->{'Visible'} = $debug; # if you want to see what's going on $Word->Documents->Open("$plpath$tmp_mail$Datei") || die("Unable to open document ", Win32::OLE->LastError()); my $Versender1 = $Word->ActiveDocument->FormFields("Text1")->Result; my $Versender2 = $Word->ActiveDocument->FormFields("Text18")->Result; my $VersStr = $Word->ActiveDocument->FormFields("Text20")->Result;