If you've got Perl and are running on Windows, perhaps this might help: http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/perl/tpj.html Look at the section on Win32::OLE, I would think it would be possible to automate Excel to 'save as' to tab-delimited text file. Pete Jay Blanchard wrote: > I am migrating several hundred excel spreadsheets to MySQL, a time > consuming process. Is anyone aware of a tool where I can batch save all > of the sheets as tab delimited files?