[ale] automating Cut and Paste in windoze

[mike thornton]

The suits have recently hired 30+ special projects people to manually 
correct billing errors, which were caused by operator error in the first 
place.
At this point the human factor is required, but the time spend moving a 
field from one app to another and then scanning the screen output is 
about as fast as using an etch-a-sketch.

It pains me to watch this process, but I'm at a loss since I spent 
decades avoiding the MS world.

The question is, can Perl or other languages interact with MS office and 
web based apps to automate the process and extract the pertinent 
information ?