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Default Delete summary rows programmatically

Access developer here with what is probably an age-old question regarding
some Excel manipulation.

I get a spreadsheet periodically that has header information (consistently
13 lines), followed by good flat-file-type data (number of lines varies),
followed by total information (two lines). I need to strip out the header &
total rows so I can import the normalized data into Access.

I wrote an Auto_Open macro in another spreadsheet that opens this one,
removes the top 13 lines, Home, Ctrl-DownArrow to get to the last populated
row, select the row, up arrow once, deletes the two rows, then saves the file
as a CSV for import into my Access table for long-term storage & analysis.

The header removal is easy, because I just remove the first 13 lines. When I
record a macro using Ctrl-ArrowDown to get to the end and then delete the
last two lines, however, the macro stores the row numbers, but I need the row
numbers to be relative to the last populated row, not a specific number.

I know could just import them into Access and delete them there, but I would
prefer to strip them out in my macro or VBA first.