diff --git a/src/Maatwebsite/Excel/Excel.php b/src/Maatwebsite/Excel/Excel.php
index 3acd5dd2b..b9be38ee2 100644
--- a/src/Maatwebsite/Excel/Excel.php
+++ b/src/Maatwebsite/Excel/Excel.php
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 use Config;
 use Maatwebsite\Excel\Readers\HTML_reader;
 use \PHPExcel_Shared_Date;
+use \PHPExcel_Style_NumberFormat;
 
 /**
  * Laravel wrapper for PHPEXcel
@@ -657,22 +658,10 @@ private function parseFile()
                 // Get the sheet count
                 $this->sheetCount = $this->excel->getSheetCount();
 
-                // If we have more than 1 worksheet, seperate them
-                if($this->sheetCount > 1)
-                {
-
-                    // Parse the rows into seperate worksheets
-                    $parsed[$title] = $this->parseRows();
-
-                }
-                else
-                {
-                    // Parse the rows, but neglect the worksheet title
-                    $parsed = $this->parseRows();
-                }
+                // Parse the rows into seperate worksheets
+                $parsed[$title] = $this->parseRows();
 
                 $i++;
-
             }
 
 
@@ -715,7 +704,7 @@ private function getLabels()
         foreach ($this->row->getCellIterator() as $this->cell) {
 
             // Set labels
-            $this->labels[] = str_replace(' ', '-',strtolower($this->cell->getValue()));
+            $this->labels[] = \Str::slug($this->cell->getValue());
 
         }
 
@@ -795,24 +784,34 @@ private function parseCells()
             $index = \PHPExcel_Cell::columnIndexFromString($this->cell->getColumn());
 
             // Check how we need to save the parsed array
-            if($this->firstRowAsLabel !== false)
+            if($this->firstRowAsLabel !== false and isset($this->labels[$i]))
             {
                 // Set label index
                 $index = $this->labels[$i];
             }
 
             // If the cell is a date time and we want to parse them
-            if($this->formatDates !== false && PHPExcel_Shared_Date::isDateTime($this->cell))
+            if ($this->cell->getCalculatedValue() and PHPExcel_Shared_Date::isDateTime($this->cell))
             {
-                // Convert excel time to php date object
-                $value = PHPExcel_Shared_Date::ExcelToPHPObject($this->cell->getCalculatedValue());
-
                 // Format the date
-                $value = $value->format($this->dateFormat);
+                if ($this->formatDates !== false) 
+                {   
+                    $value = PHPExcel_Shared_Date::ExcelToPHPObject($this->cell->getCalculatedValue());
+                    $value = $value->format($this->dateFormat);
+                }
+                else {
+                    $value = (string) PHPExcel_Style_NumberFormat::toFormattedString(
+                        $this->cell->getCalculatedValue(),
+                        $this->cell->getWorksheet()->getParent()
+                            ->getCellXfByIndex($this->cell->getXfIndex())
+                            ->getNumberFormat()
+                            ->getFormatCode()
+                    );
+                }
 
-                if($this->useCarbon)
+                if ($this->useCarbon)
                 {
-                    $value = \Carbon::parse($value)->{$this->carbonMethod}();
+                    $value = \Carbon\Carbon::parse($value)->{$this->carbonMethod}();
                 }
             }