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Default Automation of Excel to perform simple tasks on many workbooks.

I want to manipulate many Excel workbooks without having to open and enter
commands in each of them. If I have a folder with 1000 Excel workbooks, I
would like to run a script that could open each, tell each to save its
worksheets as plain text, and then close each. I could then use Perl to
search or index the plain text files.
The sequence of commands seems to be predictable, and therefore
scriptable. The only variables are the number of worksheets per workbook and
their names.
Is there a branch of Windows programming that supports this?
Many thanks.
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