I'm working on a little app that takes Excel spreadsheets that display tournament brackets, and then output the excel data and formatting into xml. I'm using Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader h(ttp://code.google.com/p/php-excel-reader/) to retrieve the data from the tournament bracket spreadsheets. The only problem is that any cell will no value will not be put in the Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader->sheets[0]['cells'] array, thus causing the table cell borders to not output. It appears that if I put a space in each cell that I want display, it works fine, but that seems like a pretty hackey way of doing it. Does anyone if there is a better way to output the formatting of a blank cell using the Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader?