OK, I got something to happen. (certainly no fault of mine ... thank you!)
<br/><br/>I finally understood what you meant by "console" so I made a file qgisEx.bat
<br/>with the code
<br/><br/>cd /d c:\dist\xlrd-0.8.0
<br/>C:\Python27\python.exe setup.py install
<br/><br/><br/>and upon execution I got a screen full of stuff in the DOS box. I detected nothing that said "error" , etc. It looks like it worked.
<br/><br/>I found a c:\python27\Lib\site-packages\xlrd which has folders doc and examples and then a bunch of .pyc and .py files
<br/><br/>But upon trying out XYtools in QGIS 1.8 again to read in a Excel file, I got the same error message about needing xlrd Python modules.
<br/><br/>Looking at the XYtools folder in C:\Documents and Settings\healthmaps\.qgis\python\plugins\xytools\docs\index.html I found the following:
<br/><br/>"(to use this functionality you should have the python-uno library installed. For Linux you can probably install it via your package manager. On Windows it is harder: you can install it via the normal installer as addition/module, but there seems to be an error with the python path. The plugin cannot find it. If somebody knows a solution for this, please let me know. )"
<br/><br/>Apparently Windows users have figured this out or none of them have used it, and for you a Mac user, it works. I see that in Windows QGIS puts the plugins in
<br/>C:\Documents and Settings\Healthmaps\.qgis\python\plugins\ subfolders for each plugin. But some code somewhere does not have the right code to find the xlrd module.
<br/><br/>Thanks for you help. NOt sure what to do next
<br/><br/>Richard
<br/>Anchorage, AK
<br/><br/><br/><br/>On Sat, 11 Aug 2012, Noli Sicad [via OSGeo.org] wrote:
<br/><div class='shrinkable-quote'><div class='shrinkable-quote'><br/>> > What is this? > > "Open console (i.e. Terminal) in that directory (e.g. xlrd-0.8.0 directory). > Be sure you are in this directory /
<br/>> folder" OK. MSDOS box, a command_prompt. Have a look here. <a href="http://www.decompile.com/windows/2000/command_prompt.htm" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">http://www.decompile.com/windows/2000/command_prompt.htm</a>> I have found the
<br/>> Python27 folder in Quantum GIS Lisboa. What is the console? > I figure it is the interactive program that accepts Python commands, but
<br/>> I > do not know where it is in Python27 folder. No. the python27 in QGIS Lisboa is not the your python installation. Try to look for
<br/>> another one. (I am using Mac OS X so I could not tell where is installed in Windows). A console or terminal is generic term for what
<br/>> people in MS World called software give you access to command prompt. You have python installation your system since you are able to
<br/>> use QGIS python plugins. Back to your problem. Open the MSDOS command prompt in the directory where you see the setup.py Then, Type
<br/>> "python setup.py install" in the console (MSDOS command prompt). Be sure that you typed without quotes (" "). It will install this in
<br/>> your python sites-packages. Search for the folder "sites-packages", you will find your python installation. Noli
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