using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using Bytescout.XLS;

namespace Converting_XLS_to_TXT
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Create new XLSDocument from SimpleReport.xls file
XLSDocument document = new XLSDocument("SimpleReport.xls");
// Create new StringBuilder
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
// For each row
for (int row = 1; row <= document.WorkBook.Worksheets[0].LastRow; row++)
{
// And column in first Worksheet
for (int col = 1; col <= document.WorkBook.Worksheets[0].LastColumn; col++)
{
// Append cell value to StringBuilder
builder.AppendFormat("{0}\t", document.WorkBook.Worksheets[0].Cell(row, col).Value);
}
// Append new line
builder.AppendLine();
}
// Save StringBuilder to file
File.WriteAllText("SimpleReport.txt", builder.ToString());
}
}
}

Download example source code: bytescoutxls_converting_xls_to_txt.zip (8 KB)