I think you all are missing this little line here: "I did not want my script to require any technical knowledge, so that non-techies (business people, marketin

I think you all are missing this little line here: "I did not want my script to require any technical knowledge, so that non-techies (business people, marketing, sales team etc.) could just press a button and see the results of their work" Most of us in here know the results of this tutorial can be reproduced with one single line in bash and a perl script. But try telling a non-techie guy to get that command working. If you did set up the environment for them beforehand it's all frosty. But if not... that would require introducing them to the command line, perl or python AND the INSTALLATION of their respective modules needed to work with Excel. Just to install perl on windows would mean having to send them on an odyssey through: strawberry, activestate, cygwin, etc and then hope for the best when they get to the module installation part. That IronSpread thing sure is quite interesting. Too bad it is not supported by Excel 2003 (yup, I'm in a legacy box here)