Python 3 How to resolve No module named '_win32com' error?

I'm using Python 3 and working in Pycharm.

I was able to get pywin32 and win32com working on one project, but since I have tried importing them into a new project, they don't seem to be working. At first I was getting No module named 'win32api', but I updated the win32com\__init__.py from import win32api to from win32 import win32api. That seems to have fixed the initial error, but now I'm getting No module named '_win32com'. This seems to be from issues with \pythoncom\__init__.py maybe?

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling pywin32 and pypiwin32 as well.

Example of code here:

import win32com.client as win32
xlapp = win32.DispatchEx("Excel.Application")
wbe = xlapp.workbooks.open(r"C:\Users\me\example.xlsx")

Solution

I decided to try again with a new project and install the packages globally and that has fixed the issue. Still not sure why it wasn't working when installing locally, but using global installs seems to be good solution.