Thanks, after some further digging I hit something... The following seems to do the trick:
import win32gui WINDOW_CLASS = 'XLMAIN' WINDOW_TITLE = 'Microsoft Excel - MySpreadsheet.xls' hwindow = win32gui.FindWindow(WINDOW_CLASS,WINDOW_TITLE) Now the next question is: how do I use the window-handle returned? I would like to work with a com object like the one returned by win32com.client.Dispatch('ExcelApplication'). Any hint? PS I could also use win32ui instead win32gui, in this case I get a window object instead of an handle. But I still do not know how to transform it into a nice pythoncom excel object. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list