Win32ole Copy/Paste

Has anyone had any issues with using copy/paste with win32ole and Excel?
I’m fairly ignorant when it comes to Windows automation. Trying to automate
some Excel stuff at the office and running into the following:

If I have code that looks like this (assuming “sheet” is a reference to a
worksheet):
sheet.Range(“A:J”).Select

I see this:
C:\My Documents>ruby consolidate_data.rb
consolidate_data.rb:23:in method_missing': Select (WIN32OLERuntimeError) OLE error code:1004 in Microsoft Excel Unable to get the Select property of the Range class HRESULT error code:0x80020009 Exception occurred from consolidate_data.rb:23:indo_rts’
from consolidate_data.rb:49
from consolidate_data.rb:47:in `each’
from consolidate_data.rb:4

I’m using the Pragmatic Programmers’ Ruby 166 (win32 build) with Excel 97 on
(gack) Win98. Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Chad

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