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Create and Read Excel Spreadsheets

Using LibXL with Xojo

Issue: 20.5 (September/October 2022)
Author: Stefanie Juchmes
Author Bio: Stefanie studied computer science at the university in Bonn. She came in touch with Xojo due to the work of her brother-in-law and got a junior developer position in early 2019 at Monkeybread Software.
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Article Number: 20509
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Did you know that with the MBS Xojo plugins and a LibXL license you can read and create Microsoft Excel documents without having Excel installed on your computer? I will show you a small example in this article (see Figure 1).

Initialize LibXL

If you want to use LibXL, you have to initialize it first. For this we use the method SetKeyGlobal from the class XLBookMBS. In the parameters of this method you specify your name and the appropriate license key for the suitable OS version.

XLBookMBS.SetKeyGlobal "your name", "Operating system matching key"

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