Everything you ever wanted to know about manipulating Excel objects can be found on my scratch pad. And I totally agree that you should read through it once, and blow it all into a database. Much faster interface, easier to manipulate data, etc.
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Update: No longer on my scratch pad, now found in a tutorial found here
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