# Help reading/writing from/to excel files **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 23, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-reading-writing-from-to-excel-files/83026 "2007-01-23T04:01:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yodadbl07](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/57b2e6/32.png) [@yodadbl07](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yodadbl07)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-reading-writing-from-to-excel-files/83026/1 "2007-01-23T04:01:58Z")
Hello everyone, I am new to ruby and was wondering if anyone could help me out with opening an excel file, reading a value from a specific cell, saving that to another pre existing excel file into a specific cell. thanks rjr ---
**Author:** ![yodadbl07](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/57b2e6/32.png) [@yodadbl07](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yodadbl07)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-reading-writing-from-to-excel-files/83026/2 "2007-01-23T04:30:44Z")
---- Rod Richenberg wrote: > Hello everyone, I am new to ruby and was wondering if anyone > could help me out with opening an excel file, reading a value > from a specific cell, saving that to another pre existing > excel file into a specific cell. Hello Rod and welcome to Ruby! You will find that this is a very helpful community. However, we do ask that you do a little searching before you ask your questions. There have been many questions by other just like yourself on the topic of interacting with Excel. So search the archives, and search google. If you are still having problems, please post a follow up question. Here are two links to get you started: [http://www.ruby-forum.com/search?query=excel&forums%5B%5D=4](http://www.ruby-forum.com/search?query=excel&forums%5B%5D=4) [http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/win32.html#UD](http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/win32.html#UD)