yes it is quite easy to do this via clientside vbs
Public Sub CaptureExcelValues()
Dim xlApp
Dim wb
Dim ws
set xlApp = createobject("EXCEL.APPLICATION")
set wb = xlApp.workbooks.open("c:\myspreadsheet.xls")
set ws = wb.sheets("MyHappySheetName")
then you can just do anything that you want with it.