st: ODBC driver for Excel, <xmluse>

[DHF <dhferry@mac.com>]

Dear Statalisters,
Does anyone know where I can get an ODBC driver for Excel? I downloaded a trial from here <http://www.actualtechnologies.com/products.php> for Access, and it seems to suggest that this should work for Excel as well, but I'm not sure. In any case, after downloading the package and adding a DSN linked to the Access driver and a specific .xls file, when I type <odbc list> in Stata, the list is empty. I am running Mac OS X and Stata 9.2. Also, I am having a problem with xmluse (another approach I am trying in order to read Excel worksheets into Stata) in that it keeps crashing Stata. Has anyone every encountered this? 
Thanks,
Danielle
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