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    <p>I have an excel spread sheet (well, hundreds of them) which I need importing into a database. If the excel data was in a nice uniform format I would simply save them out to CSV, read them in using something like LINQ to CSV and save the required data away.</p> <p>However, the excel spread sheet is 'uneven' in that different groups of cells contain different data. I need a way of grabbing the data and then working with cell references to grab the bits I need and save them to the database.</p> <p>What's the best way to achieve this?</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>UPDATE some more information</p> <p>I have numerous spread sheets, all identical in structure that need to be imported into a database. The import is not simple in that different chunks of data from the spread sheet will go into different tables. The excel document itself contains a few sections (basically question / answer) type data. For each different section I need to grab the data, shape it into a form that makes sense in terms of the database and save it.</p> <p>Ideally I would like to create a quick little WPF app that will let me select a spread sheet hit a button and perform the import.</p>
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    1. COStart from somewhere else. However you probably need to investigate interoperability with Excel to extract the data cell by cell.
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    2. COWhich version of Excel are you talking about? Are you dealing with xlsx files?
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