The Excel spreadsheet format is the native file format of Microsoft® Excel.

The name refers both to the Excel Binary File Format (.xls) in use until Excel 2007, and to the Office Open XML spreadsheet format (.xlsx) in use by Excel 2007 and later revisions.

The ExcelTools package allow detailed control over import and export of Excel spreadsheets.

The general-purpose commands Import and Export also support this format.

The default output from Import for this format is a DataFrame. To produce a Matrix, use Import(...,output=Matrix).

$M≔\mathrm{Import}\left(''Excel/ExperimentalData.xls''\,\mathrm{base}=\mathrm{datadir}\right)$

$M≔\mathrm{Import}\left(''Excel/ExperimentalData.xls''\,\mathrm{base}=\mathrm{datadir}\,\mathrm{output}=\mathrm{Matrix}\right)$

$Q≔\mathrm{ExcelTools}:-\mathrm{Import}\left(''Employees.xlsx''\,''Payroll''\,''B2:C9''\right)\:$

With Maple 2016, the Import command applied to Excel files now produces DataFrame objects by default.