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Hi All,

My first post :)

I am working on an project at work where I have an xlsm file that I am updating cell values from multiple other xlsx files.
This all works as expected except but when I save as a .xlsm file and open the file in Excel I am missing buttons that are on sheet1.

I load the workbook only one time and I set keep_vba=True in load_workbook

wb = load_workbook( filename = input_file, keep_vba=True )

I save the wb multiple times as I am updating in different functions in my code but I simple call wb.save at the end of each function where I changed some values.

wb.save(output_file_name)

Is the expected? That I will not get a valid xlsm file when saving off from openpyxl?

I have done some reading on this and realize that .xlsx and .xlsm are actually zip files so I tried some code from StackOverflow

I tried this code below but I get errors when opening the file in Excel. I also just tried pasting the two sheets that I modified into the unzipped original xlsm worksheet folders and still had problems loading. It loads but doesn't recalculate the formulas unless you go hit enter in a cell with the formula so that is not an option. I am trying to not re-write the updates in win32com basically

import openpyxl
import zipfile
from shutil import copyfile
from shutil import rmtree
import os

PAD = os.getcwd()

wb = openpyxl.load_workbook('1.xlsm')

#####
# do magic with openpyxl here and save
ws = wb.worksheets[0]
ws.cell(row=2, column=3).value = 'Edited'   # example
#####

wb.save('2.xlsx')


with zipfile.ZipFile('1.xlsm', 'r') as z:
    z.extractall('./xlsm/')

with zipfile.ZipFile('2.xlsx', 'r') as z:
    z.extractall('./xlsx/')

copyfile('./xlsm/[Content_Types].xml','./xlsx/[Content_Types].xml')
copyfile('./xlsm/xl/_rels/workbook.xml.rels','./xlsx/xl/_rels/workbook.xml.rels')
copyfile('./xlsm/xl/vbaProject.bin','./xlsx/xl/vbaProject.bin')

z = zipfile.ZipFile('2.zip', 'w')

os.chdir('./xlsx')

for root, dirs, files in os.walk('./'):
        for file in files:
            z.write(os.path.join(root, file))
z.close()

You may want to read through the issues list here: https://bitbucket.org/openpyxl/openpyxl/issues
release notes here: https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changes.html
You didn't mention when you installed the package, but I see the last update was just 3 days ago.

Thanks Larz.

This morning I did update to the latest openpyxl for Anaconda 3.5 using the conda update and it updated to openpyxl: 2.3.2-py35_0 but that caused a new error with load_workbook so I uninstalled and re-installed Anaconda 3.5. Currently I am working around the problem using win32com. I basically get a win32com workbook object and a worksheet object and the use win32com to poke in the value. This allowed me to keep the openpyxl code where I find the cells of interest where I am changing the values and win32com is saving the file correctly so I have a workaround.

thanks for fixing my code tags Buran!!!