Hi Karl

AFAIK you need Excel (or an Excel compatible application) to actually open
and read each file. So you should use Excel for it. Excel with VBA macros is
a very powerful tool, so this ought to be pretty easy.

HTH. Best wishes Harald

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I need to convert 500+ xls spreadsheet files to tab-separated text
files. How can I automate this process? I am VB illiterate, though
I'm handy with Perl, so if there's a way to convert an xls file to
tsv on the command line I could use Perl to automate this. Anyway,
any advice appreciated.

Karl

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