>>>>>>I might be wrong, but I thought there was a tool that allows importing XLS files without having Excel installed?
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>>>>>Unzip the xlsx, and then in the xl subfolder there's sheet1.xml, sheet2.xml etc. Then read the xml and get the values.
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>>>>PMFJI, but how do you Unzip an xlsx file? I am using legacy pkzip25.exe but I can't figure what you mean.
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>>>I tried 7-zip on a few .xlsx files, and they all "opened up".
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>>Thank you. I suppose I will need to buy the 7-zip.
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>7-Zip is FREE
Thank you.
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