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-PhpSpreadsheet is a library written in pure PHP and providing a set of classes that allow you to read from and to write to different spreadsheet file formats, like Excel and LibreOffice Calc.
+PhpSpreadsheet is a library written in pure PHP and offers a set of classes that
+allow you to read and write various spreadsheet file formats such as Excel and LibreOffice Calc.
 
 ## Documentation