• Well, I'm assuming you want to read data from 6th row onwards and then export this to some destination.

    Why don't you first dump the excel into a staging table , which has an identity column (with seed = 1) ,say id, and then from this table you can retrieve only rows that have id>=6.

    Depending on whether you have the liberty of making a staging or temp table, this could be a worthy solution to your problem...