from openpyxl import Workbook from openpyxl import load_workbook print("here1") wb = load_workbook("Z:\\PythonFiles\\testexcel2.xlsx") print("here2") ws1 = wb.get_sheet_by_name("Output Model") import datetime print("here3") ws1.cell(row=3, column=9).value="Somevalue2" wb.save("Z:\\PythonFiles\\testexcel2.xlsx")