MySQL Workbench is a desktop GUI product from MySQL itself. It does much more than importing and exporting with features like server health monitoring, SQL data modeling, and more.

Warnings When you import a spreadsheet into an OpenOffice.org database, you lose any text styling, number formatting, macro scripts or charts that you previously used to enhance the data.

How to Create Excel Spreadsheets With MySQL. When you use MySQL to query a database, you have the ability to view results from that query on your screen or send them to a text file.