>>>>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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>Just like you unzip any other zip file, just
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>pkzip25 -ext=all -nofix -over=all whatever.xlsx
My pkzip25 always looks for the extension .zip. That is, the above syntax creates an error
cannot find .zip file: whatever.xlsx.zip
But if I rename it to .zip, it works.
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