Reading from Excel Files

[Ray Horsley]

Never got into AppleScript.  That's not a bad idea, though.

On Oct 23, 2006, at 2:37 PM, jbv wrote:

> Ray ,
>
> If you're on Mac, I've you tried some applescript to convert all
> your excel files to tab/return test files ?
>
> JB
>> Greetings, I'm using "open file myPath for binary read" to read an  
>> Excel file and I'm getting lots of garbage characters since I  
>> believe it's Microsoft's proprietary binary format.  If I save the  
>> Excel file as a Text (Tab Delimited) file I can read from it  
>> fine.  The problem is I have about 500 of these file.  To manually  
>> convert all of them would be extremely time consuming.
>> Any suggestions on reading an Excel file and filtering out all the  
>> garbage characters?
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