Over on Brian Jones' blog there are two recent articles that may be of interest to our readers here. They deal with using the Open XML SDK to programmatically interact with Excel's XML-based file format. One deals with "document assembly",
Office 2010 Professional Key, which is essentially building a file mostly from scratch based on other data that is fed from some other system (e.g. a database). The other deals with using the SDK to read data from an Excel file. If these scenarios interest you,
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