Have you looked at the components that talk directly to the XLS file, not using COM but the actual file?
XLSReadWrite I thik they re called.
I had a play and they are great, and since you are dealing with the xls file you dont even need Excel installed.
 
Jeremy
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From: "tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:11:24 +1300
Subject: [DUG] deleting row from excel spreadsheet

Hi there

 

I have gone through this article :