Advice for developing in python with Microsoft Office?

[jose flanigan]

I'm using python to shuffle data in and out of Microsoft PowerPoint
and Microsoft Excel and create and transfer graphs. The problem I'm
having is that there are so many methods and properties built into the
PowerPoint and Excel objects. I have been looking at the PowerPoint
object documentation built into the Visual Basic development
environment, but that's not much help. It tells you what's there, but
not how to do specific things with the object.

Can anybody point me to some resources or advice on getting through
this? I'm convinced that these Microsoft objects can be useful if I
could just figure out how to use them correctly.

Thanks in advance. Sorry if I sound frustrated.