title: How to automatically copy text out of excel files
body: <p>I have 250 Microsoft Excel (.xls) files, all in a folder. I need to do the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>for each file:
      open the file
      switch to a specific tab in the file
      extract the text from rows 15-100 on that tab
      save the text in a text file somewhere
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I assume this can be automated somehow, but I have no idea how. Where do I start looking to figure out how to do this? I really don't want to open 250 excel files and copy text out by hand, as that would take hours. :(</p>