FYI the Office product group considers COM deprecated. The "new" version of Outlook has no COM support, for example. While Word/Excel may be many years off, it's something to consider if you do move this forward.
I would also suggest moving to a compiled binary at some point. Very few Windows users are going to want to figure out Python in any capacity.
I would also suggest moving to a compiled binary at some point. Very few Windows users are going to want to figure out Python in any capacity.