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Roger Wright28-Aug-13 19:27
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I'm not interested in getting programming answers here, of course, but I could use some guidance on where to look for answers to a programming problem I have at work. As you can imagine, not much useful stuff comes back when I Google for "how do I programmatically export a single worksheet in an Excel workbook to a .csv formatted file without opening Excel?" Lots of responses, of course, but far more chaff than wheat...

That, in a nutshell, is what I want to do, but I really don't want to have to deal with VBA. I'm certain there's something in the .Net world that will allow me to do this with C#, but I haven't a clue anymore where to look. As I've mentioned, I'm trying to automate the process of monitoring our electric utility's efficiency using, as part of the process data, the reports I get from suppliers. As it turns out, the daily emails I receive are worthless, as multiple sources have low precision, and rounding errors are killing me. The only other source is a monthly spreadsheet I receive, but only one sheet of the total package is relevant. On a positive note, this spreadsheet data is all normalized to a common precision and audited for errors. I want to offload this crap to some other sucker in the office, but none of them have enough computer savvy to get it right if I ask them to open the workbook and manually export the useful sheet to the specified folder for processing. I need to make this whole shebang as automatic as possible if it's going to work at all, or I can look forward to doing this mind-numbingly boring task myself for all time to come.

Where should I look to learn to do this task?
Will Rogers never met me.

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