- not sure if this belongs here or some VB group, but I'll try here -

I am a bit of an expert at programming, but a beginner at VB. I have VB6.0
and I cannot seem to figure out just how to get information from Excel. I
just want to write a simple program that can read Excel documents and write
them out as text files. We already have a program that reads text files and
writes them out as Excel documents, but I can't figure out if there's a
simple way to reverse it, or if the reverse process uses entirely different
commands. I looked through the VB database on msdn.microsoft.com but I
can't make sense of it.
Can anyone tell me where to start, or point me to a sample code program that
does this?