excel files?

[paulmigs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6))]

Hi all.  Here's a blasphemous question.  Uh oh.  Someone sent me an excel 
file something or other.  I know of antiword and pdftotext to make ascii. 
Do we have something to do the same to excel?  Thanks.