Can UTL_FILE utility read from ac Excel spreadsheet

I can manually save an excel spreadsheet as a text file in a fixed length format and read from the text file using the UTL_FILE utility. But is there way I can save the excel spreadsheet as a text file in a fixed length format, programatically. (A batch file which can be run at the DOS prompt). If not, is there any way Oracle can read directly from an Excel spreadsheet.
Thank you

UTL_FILE handles ASCII files, but Excel files are binary files, so this won't work. If you did get direct access to the binary file, you'd need to embed logic to differentiate data and formatting/ headers/ control codes, which would be quite painful.
Assuming the spreadsheets are formatted the same each time, you could use Oracle Heterogeneous Connectivity and set up an ODBC data source that pointed to the Excel spreadsheet. You could then query the spreadsheet in SQL over a database link.
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