At work we often have to generate spreadsheets, for which I usually turn to John McNamara's excellent Excel::Writer::XLSX module, which gives you access to most features supported by Excel. But often we just need a basic spreadsheet, with a standard format, so I created Spreadsheet::GenerateXLSX to make our life easier. I'll show how you use it, and then look at other modules for generating XLSX format spreadsheets.

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