A package has been (after some bumbling on my part) updated at tug.ctan.org and by now has likely made it to your favorite mirror.
Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: exceltex Author's name: Hans-Peter Doerr Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/exceltex Summary description: get data from Excel files into LaTeX License type: gpl
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Exceltex is a LaTeX package combined with a helper program written in Perl. It provides a easy to use yet powerfull and flexible way to get data from Spreadsheets into LaTeX.
In difference to other existing solutions, exceltex does not seek for making the creation of tables in LaTeX easier, but to get data from Spreadsheets into LaTeX as easy as possible.
The excel fileformat only acts as an interface between the spreadsheet application and exceltex beacause it is easily accessible via the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Perl module and because most spreadsheet applications are able to read and write excel files.
* changes since last ctan-upload
- changed commandline interface - support for configuration files - support for some character encodings, currently latin1 latin9 and utf8 - experimental support for the EURP currency symbol
* homepage
http://www.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~doerr/exceltex
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