Advice for developing in python with Microsoft Office?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <c6f263dc.0306250519.12526baa at posting.google.com>,
jose flanigan <jflanigan at netzero.net> wrote:
>I'm using python to shuffle data in and out of Microsoft PowerPoint
>and Microsoft Excel and create and transfer graphs. The problem I'm
>having is that there are so many methods and properties built into the
>PowerPoint and Excel objects. I have been looking at the PowerPoint
>object documentation built into the Visual Basic development
>environment, but that's not much help. It tells you what's there, but
>not how to do specific things with the object.
>
>Can anybody point me to some resources or advice on getting through
>this? I'm convinced that these Microsoft objects can be useful if I
>could just figure out how to use them correctly.
>
>Thanks in advance. Sorry if I sound frustrated.

Attempts to program Office frustrate many people.  'Fact,
it's hard to falsify the proposition that some of the 
documentation has been managed in order to maximize 
frustration.

<URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/com > has a few hints and refer-
ences I find useful.

Good luck.
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