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>it is not a text file. The structure of the binary data isn't
>usually known. However, you could try exporting sheets to CSVs,
>and read these with less effort.
  Just run Excel and look at all the different choices for exporting
data.  With simple numbers, Comma Separated Values is simple, but
it gets a little nastier with text, especially text with commas and
quotes.  Or you can read the data by using an Ada database binding
and using the Excel data as a database source.  There's also SYLK
files, which are text and contain the formulas and formats as well
as the data.