NAME
   Spreadsheet::ParseExcel - Extract information from Excel file.

DESCRIPTION
   This module allows you to extract information from Excel file.

   This module can handle files in Excel95, 97 and 2000 format.

   The module will work on the majority of Windows, UNIX and
   Macintosh platforms.

REQUIREMENT
   This module requires these modules:
       OLE::Storage_Lite
       Jcode.pm      (if you are using FmtJapan, or FmtJapan2)
       Unicode::Map  (if you are using FmtJapan2 or FmtUnicode)
       IO::Scalar    (if PERLIO is not available)
       Spreadsheet::WriteExcel (to use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::SaveParser)

INSTALLATION
   The module can be installed using the standard Perl procedure:

       perl Makefile.PL
       make
       make test
       make install    # You may need to be root
       make clean      # or make realclean

     or using CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS.pm

       cpan Spreadsheet::ParseExcel

   Windows users without a working "make" can get nmake from:
       ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe

For FmtJapan2
 If you use FmtJapan2, you must do following actions:

 (1) Copy "CP932Excel.map" included with this distribution to an
     applicatable directry.

 (2) To add "CP932Excel" as map name, append following lines to
     REGISTRY in the Unicode::Map hierarchy
     (changing map directy to applicatable directry):

name:    CP932Excel
srcURL:  $SrcUnicode/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP932.TXT
src:     $DestUnicode/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP932.TXT
map:     (which you copied directry)/CP932Excel.map
# Don't remove this line


AUTHOR

   Current maintainer 0.40+: John McNamara [email protected]

   Maintainer 0.27-0.33: Gabor Szabo [email protected]

   Original author: Kawai Takanori (Hippo2000) [email protected]


SUPPORT
   Before you report problems, please check the "KNOWN PROBLEMS" section
   in the manual page for Spreadsheet::ParseExcel.

   There is a Google group for discussing and asking questions about
   Spreadsheet::ParseExcel.
   http://groups-beta.google.com/group/spreadsheet-parseexcel/

   Bugs can be reported via rt.cpan.org. See the following for instructions:
   http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Spreadsheet-ParseExcel

   Test cases are always welcome.