Forum Moderators: open
strCnn = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=c:\your-excel-file.xls;Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;" strSql = "SELECT * FROM [your-excel-sheet$];" See Manipulate Excel Spreadsheet Data in ASP Using ADO [msdn.microsoft.com]
Northbath: it's possible to return data from an asp page to open in Excel, see How To Display ASP Results Using Excel in IE with MIME Types [support.microsoft.com]