If you have any compliments or complaints to MSDN Support, feel free to contact MSDNFSF@microsoft.com. You can get it by using the Workbook.active property: To gain access to Excel, we import win32com.client and then call its gencache.EnsureDispatch, passing in the application name that we want to open. All that does is open Excel in the background. Parameters Remarks The FileFormat parameter value can be one of these PpSaveAsFileType constants. It's inane, not politethe instructions are for something we already want to do; in fact, we probably sought them out deliberately. from pptx import Presentation. This can be beneficial to other community members reading this thread. On Sep 10, 11:57 am, Chris