# Flash reading information within an Excel file

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-reading-information-within-an-excel-file/277663>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 15, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-reading-information-within-an-excel-file/277663 "2008-12-15T16:38:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![zancroft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e99b99/32.png) [@zancroft](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zancroft)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-reading-information-within-an-excel-file/277663/1 "2008-12-15T16:38:17Z")

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I wanted to know if there was a way to get a flash file to look into an excel file and find information such as an image name or URL. It would probably be done by looking at a specific cell in the spreadsheet and retrieving the information as a string.But I don’t know how to do something like this.