I'm using Word 2013 to automatically create a report as a docx and then save it as a pdf format. But when I call the function SaveAs2(), the script pop out the "save as" windows and throws this exception : (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, u'Microsoft Word', u'Command failed', u'wdmain11.chm', 36966, -2146824090), None) Here is my code to open and to save as a new file: self.path = os.path.abspath(path) self.wordApp = win32.Dispatch('Word.Application') #create a word application object self.wordApp.Visible = False # if false hide the word application (app does't open but still usable) self.document = self.wordApp.Documents.Open(self.path + "/" + documentRef) # opening the template file absFileName = "D:\\test.pdf" self.document.SaveAs2(FileName=absFileName,FileFormat=17) And I'm using : python2.7 with pywin32 (build 219) Does someone had an idea why it doesn't work? Continue reading...