Push or Pull to Excel for reporting data

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Published on 2010-06-07T06:17:29Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 6:22 UTC
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I am unsure which is the best way to go here.

I have a third party Excel 2003 spreadsheet that needs to be filled in on a monthly basis and emailed.

Currently it is a manual process and I am in the process of automating the generation of the spreadsheet.

I have been throwing around different ideas of how to get the data into the spreadsheet.

I have thought of using SSRS to create a report that is in a similar format and get the user to cut and past.
Alternatively writing a VBA addin that retrieves that data from a webservice and then adds the data to the spreadsheet.
Or using the third party spreadsheet as a template and open it on the server via oledb and adding the data then serving it as a downloadable file.

Which is better or are the better solutions out there?

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