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Microsoft Excel and Web Pages. Create an application that will read data from an Excel spreadsheet and map all of it to an equivalent HTML table. (You may use the third-party HTMLgen module if desired.)

Microsoft Office Applications and Web Services. Interface to any existing Web service, whether REST- or URL-based, and write data to an Excel spreadsheet or format the data nicely into a Word document. Format them properly for printing. Extra Credit: Support both Excel and Word.

Microsoft Outlook and Web Services. Similar to the previous problem, do the same thing, but put the data into a new e-mail message that you send with Outlook. Extra Credit: Do the same thing but send the e-mail with regular SMTP instead. (You may wish to refer to Chapter 17 on Internet Client Programming.)

Microsoft PowerPoint. Design a presentation slide creator. Design the specification of a text file that users will create with Word or a normal text editor. Using the specification format, read in the presentation data and create the appropriate PowerPoint slides all as part of a single presentation.

Microsoft Outlook, Databases, and Your Address Book.Write a program that will extract the contents of an Outlook address book and store the desired fields into a database. The database can be a text file, DBM file, or even an RDBMS. (You may wish to refer to Chapter 21, Database Programming.) Extra Credit: Do the reverse ... read in contact information from a database (or allow for direct user input) and create or update records in Outlook.

Microsoft Outlook and E-mail. Develop a program that backs up your e-mail by taking the contents of your Inbox and/or other important folders and saves them in (as close to) regular "box" format to disk.

Microsoft Outlook Calendar. Write a simple script that creates new Outlook appointments. Take at least the following as user input: start date and time, appointment name or subject, and duration of appointment.

Microsoft Outlook Calendar. Build an application that dumps the contents of your appointments to a destination of your choice, i.e., to the screen, to a database, to Excel, etc. Extra Credit: Do the same thing to your set of Outlook tasks.

Multithreading. Update the Excel version of the stock quote download script (estock.pyw) so that the downloads of data happen "concurrently" using multiple Python threads. Optional: You may also try this exercise with Visual C++ threads using win32process.beginthreadex().

Excel Cell Formatting. In the spreadsheet version of the stock quote download script (estock.pyw), we saw in Figure 23-7 how the stock price does not default to two places after the decimal point even if we pass in a string with the trailing zero(s). When Excel converts it to a number, it uses the default setting for the number format.