Our department submitted a GOOP excel library to the resource library.
You can find a description at: http://zone.ni.com/devzone/explprog.nsf/931ca51408547952862568720062e1de/e9b00485fca7df3e8625699d004eeeec?OpenDocument
simply searching for excel does not work
You can read a row easily and copy it to another row via activeX that is much faster than dde.
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