create excel spreadsheet

Question

Is there any way to create an excel spreadsheets using VBScript? I can create a text file using a FileSystemObject and use any extension I want, but when I try and download thi

Answer 1

I answered this on a another question. correct formatting for excel spreadsheet You should be able to use CreateObject("Excel.Application") on your server if office (at least Excel) is installed.

Xls (and the other types of Excel 2007/2010 are binary fiels that you can not easily create like that, you need to use Com objects to create and manipulate them. Here an example from the scripting guys http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2005/01/31/how-can-i-make-changes-to-and-then-re-save-an-existing-excel-spreadsheet.aspx

Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application") 
objExcel.Visible = True 
objExcel.DisplayAlerts = FALSE 

Set objWorkbook = objExcel.Workbooks.Add 
Set objWorksheet = objWorkbook.Worksheets(1) 

objWorksheet.Cells(1, 1).Value = Now 
objWorkbook.SaveAs("C:\Scripts\Test.xls") 
objExcel.Quit 

see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa223697(v=office.11).aspx for a list of vba functions you can use