Skipping leading rows in Excel

Hi All,
While we are loading the text file to SQL Server via SSIS, we have the provision to skip any number of leading rows from the source and load the data to SQL server. Is there any provision to do the same for Excel file.
The source Excel file for me has some description in the leading 5 rows, I want to skip it and start the data load from the row 6. Please provide your thoughts on this.

The method above works perfectly except when a worksheet name has a space (" ") in it. Does anyone have a solution as I have tried each of the following:
* [New Sheet1$]A6:Z5000
* 'New Sheet1$'A6:Z5000
* 'New Sheet1$A6:Z5000'
* [New Sheet1$A6:Z5000]
All receiving a the following error:
"Error at Stage Bulksheet Data [New Worksheet [837]]: Opening a rowset for "[New Sheet1$]A5:K65000" failed. Check that the object exists in the database."

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