There is a way to use Excel to output the db files. I used the Concatenate function to merge the cells into one pipe-deliminated cell. Like this:
=CONCATENATE(A2,"|",B2,"|",C1,"|",D2,"|",E2,"|",F2,"|",G2,"|",H2,"|",I2,"|",J2,"|",K2,"|",L2,"|",M2)
Excel offers a whole bunch of data manipulation tools that the other editors don't have, but you'll still need a good editor (UltraEdit-32 is a great one) to output the db to. Oh, and make sure you have the properties in the cells set to "text", or the date will not merge properly.
~pp