Thanks for the quick reply, the code i am running is the following
import win32com.client xl = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application") ppt = win32com.client.Dispatch("PowerPoint.Application") ppt.Visible = 1 #open MS Powerpoint xl.Visible = 1 #open MS Excel xl.Workbooks.Open('%s/working_output.xls' % (working_dir)) xl.Workbooks.Open('Z:\\projects\\surveys\\SPSS - Generic files\\CTP.xla') ppt.Presentations.Open('Z:\\projects\\surveys\\SPSS - Generic files\\Basic Template.ppt') xl.Application.Workbooks("working_output").Activate xl.Application.Run("CTP.xla!sheet1.CTP") I'm running via SPSS V15 which has a python plugin, i was previousky running in V14 using the exact same code with no problems? Thanks again Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list