>I tried to use DSOFile from MS but it only works in VB or C
>It is funny though, when I use the demo of DSOFile.dll the OLE Type property for my Excel 5/95 file is listed as Excel 2003 (Biff8)...anyway...we may just give up on this and require the import to only occur through CSV or tab-delimited TXT files. I just want to avoid a complete crash of the app if they try to import the XLS and it was saved as 2000/2003/2007...
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>- no resolution - other than to abandon ship.

Check my other reply with a message reference. I started to doubt I was right and decided to do a search here.