load an excel spreadsheet into an oracle databse using sql loader

how do i load an excel spreadsheet into an oracle database using sql loader

[QUOTE=example from Oracle documentation[/QUOTE]



1) -- Variable-length, delimited, and enclosed data format
LOAD DATA
2) INFILE *
3) APPEND
INTO TABLE emp
4) FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
(empno, ename, job, mgr,
5) hiredate DATE(20) "DD-Month-YYYY",
sal, comm, deptno CHAR TERMINATED BY ':',
projno,
6) loadseq SEQUENCE(MAX,1))
7) BEGINDATA
8) 7782, "Clark", "Manager", 7839, 09-June-1981, 2572.50,, 10:101
7839, "King", "President", , 17-November-1981,5500.00,,10:102
7934, "Miller", "Clerk", 7782, 23-January-1982, 920.00,, 10:102
7566, "Jones", "Manager", 7839, 02-April-1981, 3123.75,, 20:101
7499, "Allen", "Salesman", 7698, 20-February-1981, 1600.00,
(same line continued) 300.00, 30:103
7654, "Martin", "Salesman", 7698, 28-September-1981, 1312.50,
(same line continued) 1400.00, 3:103
7658, "Chan", "Analyst", 7566, 03-May-1982, 3450,, 20:101