Use openpyxl to edit a Excel2007 file (.xlsx) without changing its own styles?

Question

I have a .xlsx file to edit, I found openpyxl could manipulate Excel 2007 files. I only want to change the value in some cells and leave other settings unchanged.

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Answer 1

Now openpyxl cannot handle styles good enough, so I tried using pywin32 COM and got the solution. Here is a good python-excel-mini-cookbook to use pywin32 COM for Excel

Answer 2

Styles aren't fully supported yet in openpyxl. Make sure you're using the latest version (1.5.3 as of now), as it recently improved its style capabilities.

The xlwt has more complete formatting for .xls files, but doesn't support xlsx as of yet.