SSIS Excel import skip first rows

Question

Hello,
1. Is it possible during import data from Excel to DB table skip first 6 rows for example?
2. Also Excel data divided by sections with headers. Is it possible for example to skip every 12th row?
Thank you,V. A.

Answer 1

1.In Excel connection you cannot remove the 1st n rows as you want.
2. Not possible.
1.  YES YOU CAN.  Actually, you can do this very easily if you know the number columns that will be imported from your Excel file.  In your Data Flow task, you will need to set the "OpenRowset" Custom Property of your Excel Connection (right-click
your Excel connection > Properties; in the Properties window, look for OpenRowset under Custom Properties).  To ignore the first 5 rows in Sheet1, and import columns A-M, you would enter the following value for OpenRowset:  Sheet1$A6:M  (notice,
I did not specify a row number for column M.  You can enter a row number if you like, but in my case the number of rows can vary from one iteration to the next)
2. AGAIN, YES YOU CAN.  You can import the data using a conditional split.  You'd configure the conditional split to look for something in each row that uniquely identifies it as a header row; skip the rows that match this 'header logic'. 
Another option would be to import all the rows and then remove the header rows using a SQL script in the database...like a cursor that deletes every 12th row.  Or you could add an identity field with seed/increment of 1/1 and then delete all rows
with row numbers that divide perfectly by 12.  Something like that...