I use this: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlutils
Documentation here: http://pythonhosted.org/xlutils/ website full of advice here: http://www.python-excel.org/ Tutorial I took at Europython where I learned a lot of stuff http://www.simplistix.co.uk/presentations/python-excel.pdf Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list