access to .xls files via ODBC? or ???

[Phil Davis]

Hi people,

I've never used RR's database access features. I would like to write 
data to an Excel spreadsheet directly - not to a text file that Excel 
can import. I would also like to get data directly from a spreadsheet 
file. Am I dreaming, or is it possible to do that via ODBC? Or is there 
another approach?

Seems like I've designated an .xls file as an ODBC data source somewhere 
in the past, in some other tool - maybe MS Access?

Anyway, that's what I want to do. Has anyone done this before? What's 
the best approach?

Many thanks -
Phil Davis