I have used the below code to open an Excel file in MS Access 2003.
I would like to delete row 2 or A2:K2.
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
xlApp.Visible = True
xlApp.Workbooks.Open "QuotebyItem.xls", True, False
…assuming your file has only one sheet: if there might be multiple and you need to address only one of them: