simplest question on win32com.client

[Joe Green]

Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote in message news:<CtDra.7016$lD4.74951 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> 
> I've seen this happen when an old state excel process is hanging around. 
>   Check using the Task Manager that there is no Excel currently running.
> 

Nope. No Excel running. This is on a Win2kpro machine with
ms-office2k.

In other unrelated questions, would it be possible to starta COM
object without it being visible, write, save to a file, close it?

Thanks