The technique that is most frequently used to transfer data to an Excel workbooks is Automation.
BIFF is the native file format for Excel data, and can be viewed and modified in Microsoft Excel 97 or later. This article shows how to create Microsoft Excel Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF) without using Microsoft Excel. I'd like to present here a solution that does not require MS Excel to be installed on the target computer. Generating Excel files from web pages or other applications is a major subject in many articles.
