Is there a way to set up start viewing position in excel sheet?

Normally Excel remembers where you stopped at a sheet and when you open it next time it takes you right there. Is there a way to set up such a position when generating the document?

Answer

With the pywin32 package, you can control Excel with COM and automate anything that Excel can do.

Here’s an example that creates a simple worksheet, initializes some cells, selects a cell, then saves the document. When you later open the document it will restore to that same location.

import win32com.client

def create_excel_file():
    xl = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Excel.Application')
    # xl.Visible = True # Uncomment to make the Excel COM instance visible
    wb = xl.Workbooks.Add()
    ws = xl.ActiveSheet
    ws.Range('A1').Value = 100
    ws.Range('A2').Value = 200
    ws.Range('B1').Value = 300
    ws.Range('B2').Value = 400
    ws.Range('B2').Select()
    ws.SaveAs(r'test.xlsx')
    xl.Quit()

create_excel_file()

Here’s the resulting file opened in Excel: