Esteemed Forum Members and Lurkers:

Are there any primitive examples of opening and manipulating an Excel spreadsheet? I only have Excel 97 and VB.NET v2003.

I have waded through the VB help stuff (not very helpful) and MANY posts on this forum but haven't found what I am looking for. Several posts have code like:

Dim xl as New Excel.Application and EXL.Workbooks.Open(FN)
etc.

Excel and EXL are not recognized by my VB.Net.

Thank you for your gracious comments, suggestions, and assistance.