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 Build.PL
        ./Build
        ./Build test
        ./Bbuild install

      or

        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 jmcnamara@cpan.org

    Maintainer 0.27-0.33: Gabor Szabo szabgab@cpan.org

    Original author: Kawai Takanori (Hippo2000) kwitknr@cpan.org


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.