How do I display a few cells from an excel spreadsheet

Can a page be created that sets a field that displays
information located in an excel spreadsheet located on a different
server?
Basically there is a cell within an excel spreadsheet that
gets updated daily, and I want the coldfusion to reflect the change
real time.
I can see the excel file using this code:
<cfhttp method="get" url="
http://test/test.xls"
throwonerror="yes">
<cfoutput>#CFHTTP.filecontent#</cfoutput>
</cfhttp>
But it shows up as a bunch of gobblygook on the screen. How
can I detail it down to only 2 cells in the spreadsheet, and make
it look normal?

If you know Java, you can use POI:
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
It's fairly easy to use, but I haven't written anything
that's general enough to do something like "Give me cell A2 from
this Excel file". Everything I've done with it has been specialized
to the specific task at hand.

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