Microsoft's Excel software is an indispensable tool for small businesses because of its flexibility and the ease with which you can set up spreadsheets. Though you can use it to manage files ...

Have you ever faced the frustration of trying to combine multiple Excel files, only to realize their sheet names don’t match? It’s a common headache for anyone working with data from varied sources.

In the Java Q&A entitled “It’s Excel-lent,” I presented a method for reading Microsoft Excel documents via JDBC. Read Tony Sintes’s entire Java/Microsoft Excel series (JavaWorld): “It’s Excel-lent” ...