John Machin wrote:
The OP was planning to dig the formula text out using COM then parse the formula text looking for cell references and appeared to have a rather simplistic view of the ease of parsing Excel formula text -- that's why I pointed him at those facilities (existing, released, proven in the field) in xlwt.
Which bits of xlwt are you referring to? (at a guess, the stuff that turns a piece of text into the correct formulae gubbinz when you write a formula to a cell with xlwt?)
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