The comments actually helped me get the answer by pointing me to openpyxl
. I’m posting it here if anyone else had it.
import openpyxl
wb = openpyxl.load_workbook('Roster Report.xlsx')
header_text = str(wb.active.HeaderFooter)
wb.close()
I didn’t see a way in xlrd
to read the header, only to write it.
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solved Read Excel Text Header Using Python