Li On 12/19/06, Li Chen <chen_li3 / yahoo.com> wrote: > Do you know what the advantages of using parseexcel are , compared to > export data from excel into text file, parse them,then import them back > into excel using spreadsheetexcel? I probably would not call them advantages, but circumstances: - if you cannot choose your input format, and thus would have to perform that export to text (csv?) manually, use parseexcel. - parseexcel can give you information on the data contained in a cell (Cell#type returns :date, :numeric or :text) - if you need that information, use parseexcel. hth Hannes