Word of caution: I have _never_ done any excel programming before (lots
of C++, C, Python, Java etc. though).

I have an excel file that contains 25 worksheets.

Each sheet contains (apart from som text here and there) a 12x12 grid
of cells containing mainly just color information. That is, a cell is
white, green, red, blue etc. In some of these colored cells, there is
also text.

Now, I need to extract data from these sheets into some simple format
that is easy to parse. I have tried using a Python excel reading
module, but it disregards color information.

Is there some tools that can extract data (also color information) from
excel into some simpler format (CSV is without color information too)?

Or can I make a simple excel program that puts a certain string into a
cell depending on each color? Then I can read this content with the
python module etc.

/David