Automating import of Excel spreadsheets

Hi,
I have a requirement to regularly import data contained in various Excel spreadsheets into the database.
Assuming I can get the users to upload the spreadsheets to the database server (using Application Express), how do I load the spreadsheet data?
My restrictions are
- Our users can not be expected to convert the Excel files to csv files
- No third party software (converters, ODBC drivers, etc) can be used
Thanks
Andy.

I currently have the same situation so what I did is that I saved the Excel spreadsheet as a tab delimited file and created a batch file to call SQL Loader and then write codes in Oracle Form to call this batch file when user click a button using host().
I also created a macro in Excel so user can hit a short-cut key to create the tab delimited file so developer don't have to get involved with this process. 3 easy steps and this works like a charm!
To call SQL Loader at command prompt:
C:\oracle\ora92\bin\sqlldr userid=username/password@databasename control=SQLLoaderCtl.txt log=SQLLoaderCtl.log bad=SQLLoader.bad
ps. you can also use TEXT_IO to read the text file and parse the data but because I have more than 80 columns so I decided to use SQL Loader since it's easier.

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