I have just come across something that I have never seen before in an Excel spreadsheet.

When I selected a cell I expected to see the cell reference (e.g. B30) in the box in the top left hand corner of the spreadsheet.
However, I now can see a ‘variable’ name (for example height). (This variable name is used in a formula in another cell in the spreadsheet - this is not important to me but is an example of how it is used in Excel).

I need to read the value of the variable. I can do this by using the cell reference which is still available. However, this means that the each data item has to be in a fixed position on the spreadsheet.
How can I use Perl to access this data using the variable name rather than the cell reference?
I guess I will need to know
1. How to open the spreadsheet;
2. How to search for the data associated with variable name.

Also it would be good to know how to write data to a cell and give it a variable name.

As this is something I only have seen recently, I wondered if whatever the method is, applies to only certain version of Excel.

In reply to Reading Variables in Excel Spreadsheet by merrymonk

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