Pulling info from excel documents via c++

[Chreman]

I'm really not that experienced with c++ other than a few classes in high school and I'm looking to wet my feet in the language by working on a small project that'll help out a lot with some tedious work at my job.

What I'm looking to do, is make a program that will open a particular excel document (grabbed from outlook) and look for particular numbers. It will need to identify a title, look below the title for a number, and in that particular row for another number. I'm focusing on the opening the particular excel document and identifying the pieces of information first before I complicate things. This sounds like a rather simple task, however I'm completely out of ideas at where to even start with this.

That being said, are there any resources (preferably online) that I could consult that describe premade solutions or barring that, resources to scour and build my own. Also, if anyone knows of any community sites similar to BG for programmers to visit? I've come accross a few during random google search but am at a loss at how useful to deem them and their advice.

Thanks for the help

[Fhqwghads]

Never done anything with Excel via coding, but I believe there are office objects that you can instantiate to load up documents and manipulate them programmatically. I'd look for something like an Office SDK to see if you can get your hands on something.