>Thanks for the imput. I think the only way to do this is use the IMPORT command and rewrite my excel workbook to have a separate data sheet to import from.
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>Thanks again to all

Chuck,
You could just get the portion from Excel to a tab delimited string and parse it the way you like :

oExcel = createobject('Excel.Application')
With oExcel
  .Workbooks.Open(getFile('xls'))
  .ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Range("A2:C30").Copy
  lcData = _cliptext
  _Cliptext = ""
  .quit
Endwith

lcData is a representation of tab delimited file as string.
Cetin