Sadly this is all under the control of Excel, so I've no good advice.
The poor advice I can offer is (1) for your own piece of mind, see if
you can get the same basic behaviour with wscript and a .vbs script, (2)
to try and see if you can find a similar problem in any
language/environment (eg,
Greetings,
I am having a problem with using win32com to open an instance of Excel when
there is already one open. I would appreciate any help.
My example goes as follows:
The user has an Excel file (and therefore an EXCEL.exe process) open
already.
I do:
xl=win32com.client.DispatchEx("
