Use the Excel file as an ODBC data source (connection string info here), and your MySQL database as the destination (using their ODBC connector). What OS is your process running on?

How can I get this nominally UTF-8 file into MySQL successfully? For what it's worth, if I open the UTF-8 file in Notepad or re-open it in Excel, it looks fine.<BR><BR>Thanks for any help!

Migrating a database is as simple as selecting the database in the left column, clicking the Export link, and saving the database to a file.

Warnings When you import a spreadsheet into an OpenOffice.org database, you lose any text styling, number formatting, macro scripts or charts that you previously used to enhance the data.