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Excel is likely to save it as whatever it was in the first place, which is why you keep getting xml. Move your originals to xls and it'll try to keep saving them as xls.

Excel confuses this by calling everything xls. anything from xml, csv, to an actual xls file can be saved under the xls extension sometimes.
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Spreadsheet::XLSX(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    Spreadsheet::XLSX(3pm)

NAME
Spreadsheet::XLSX - Perl extension for reading MS Excel 2007 files; SYNOPSIS
use Text::Iconv; my $converter = Text::Iconv -> new ("utf-8", "windows-1251"); # Text::Iconv is not really required. # This can be any object with the convert method. Or nothing. use Spreadsheet::XLSX; my $excel = Spreadsheet::XLSX -> new ('test.xlsx', $converter); foreach my $sheet (@{$excel -> {Worksheet}}) { printf("Sheet: %s ", $sheet->{Name}); $sheet -> {MaxRow} ||= $sheet -> {MinRow}; foreach my $row ($sheet -> {MinRow} .. $sheet -> {MaxRow}) { $sheet -> {MaxCol} ||= $sheet -> {MinCol}; foreach my $col ($sheet -> {MinCol} .. $sheet -> {MaxCol}) { my $cell = $sheet -> {Cells} [$row] [$col]; if ($cell) { printf("( %s , %s ) => %s ", $row, $col, $cell -> {Val}); } } } } DESCRIPTION
This module is a (quick and dirty) emulation of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel for Excel 2007 (.xlsx) file format. It supports styles and many of Excel's quirks, but not all. It populates the classes from Spreadsheet::ParseExcel for interoperability; including Workbook, Worksheet, and Cell. SEE ALSO
Text::CSV_XS, Text::CSV_PP http://search.cpan.org/~hmbrand/ A pure perl version is available on http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/ Spreadsheet::ParseExcel http://search.cpan.org/~kwitknr/ Spreadsheet::ReadSXC http://search.cpan.org/~terhechte/ Spreadsheet::BasicRead http://search.cpan.org/~gng/ for xlscat likewise functionality (Excel only) Spreadsheet::ConvertAA http://search.cpan.org/~nkh/ for an alternative set of cell2cr () / cr2cell () pair Spreadsheet::Perl http://search.cpan.org/~nkh/ offers a Pure Perl implementation of a spreadsheet engine. Users that want this format to be supported in Spreadsheet::Read are hereby motivated to offer patches. It's not high on my todo-list. xls2csv http://search.cpan.org/~ken/ offers an alternative for my "xlscat -c", in the xls2csv tool, but this tool focusses on character encoding transparency, and requires some other modules. Spreadsheet::Read http://search.cpan.org/~hmbrand/ read the data from a spreadsheet (interface module) AUTHOR
Dmitry Ovsyanko, <do@eludia.ru<gt>, http://eludia.ru/wiki/ Patches by: Steve Simms Joerg Meltzer Loreyna Yeung Rob Polocz Gregor Herrmann H.Merijn Brand endacoe Pat Mariani Sergey Pushkin ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to TrackVia Inc. (http://www.trackvia.com) for paying for Rob Polocz working time. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2008 by Dmitry Ovsyanko This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available. perl v5.10.1 2010-05-16 Spreadsheet::XLSX(3pm)