Ben Nadel has a great Poi component.
http://www.bennadel.com/projects/poi-utility.htm

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote:
>
> Take a look at the Apache POI utility. There are some CF wrappers for
> it, I believe, and it is also what Adobe is using under the covers for
> its cfspreadsheet tag.
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:34 AM, marc -- <m...@marcbakker.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>> On the server (CF 8.0) I have an Excel .xls file. It is a simple file 
>> containing text and formatting (no macros etc). What I want to do is to read 
>> it, replace a few placeholders (<date>,<username>)in cells with their actual 
>> values (the current date and name of logged in user) and stream the modified 
>> file to the client.
>> I did this before with an .rtf file and that worked fine but excel is 
>> different since it is not text.
>> Has anybody tips on how to accomplish this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>
> 

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