title: XLWings Unable to Load a Workbook on Remote Instance
body: <p>XLwings works locally on my Windows machine, but if I try to run it remotely on a SageMaker instance (which I believe uses Linux under the hood) it doesn't work. What do I need to do to enable this?</p>
  <p>Code is:</p>
  <pre><code>wb = xw.Book('my_excel_file.xlsx')
  </code></pre>
  <p>Which results in the following error:</p>
  <pre><code>XlwingsError: Your platform only supports the instantiation via xw.Book(json=...)
  </code></pre>
  <p>I'm planning on using XLwings to automatically run an excel model for me (update inputs, run model, save outputs) and I don't think this would be possible if converted to JSON - and I can't find anything in the docs to help me either. Appreciate the help!</p>
  <p>Many thanks!</p>