Hi Winter, might try this little snippet. It reads a spreadsheet called TEST.XLS in the current script directory.

code:
break on

$excel = createobject("excel.application")
$excel.visible = 0
$excel.displayalerts = 0

$book = $excel.workbooks.open("@SCRIPTDIR\TEST.XLS")

if $book

 $value = $excel.activesheet.columns(7).rows(5).value

 ?"Value=" $value

endif

$excel.visible = 0
$excel.quit()
$excel = 0

exit 1