Hi!
I had few modif. your code : import time from win32com.client import Dispatch xlApp = Dispatch("Excel.Application") xlApp.Visible=True xlWb = xlApp.Workbooks.Open("Read.xls") print "D3:",xlWb.ActiveSheet.Cells(3,4).Value time.sleep(2) xlWb.Close(SaveChanges=0) xlApp.Quit() This run OK on my computers. @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list