I'm new to this community/forum, so please forgive me if I miss any normal question protocols.

I have not programmed in Perl in a couple of years, and the programming I have done has been pretty basic and related to CGI. I work for a university and have been asked to create an HTML form that will collect data via Perl into a Microsoft Excel file. Periodically--maybe every week--they will download this file and import it into an internal...