I have been looking for a replacement for the great Lunchbox Excel Reader LEGACY, which allowed you to pull in data from specific cells or ranges with ease. It reads whataver Excel file is active presently. (see image)
The new lunchbox Excel Reader only can pull in an entire sheet’s worth of data. I guess they anticipate that you will manipulate the entire dataset in order to pull the items you need in GH after the import.
Someone reccommended PancakeSpreadsheet which sadly forces you to build a whole cluster of components in order to output the same list that LEGACY used to do with 4 simple inputs (see image).
I couldn’t get the TTToolbox version to run at all, although at face value it looks like it would do the same thing that Pancake does.
If I knew more about how to code for GH, I would write a component that emulates Lunchbox Excel Reader LEGACY that runs stably on Rhino 8. I would happily try one that someone else makes!