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<p>Ray ,
<p>If you're on Mac, I've you tried some applescript to convert all
<br>your excel files to tab/return test files ?
<p>JB
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Greetings, I'm using "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><font face="Lucida Grande"><font size=+0>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.</font></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">
<br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><font face="Lucida Grande"><font size=+0>Any
suggestions on reading an Excel file and filtering out all the garbage
characters?</font></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></blockquote>
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