Hi huang256,
Here I stated something about the function "Read from spreadsheet file.vi" and .xls files. And if you would read the help for the function you can see that it really needs a text file and not some binary file as Excel produces.
Waldemar
Waldemar
Using 7.1.1, 8.5.1, 8.6.1, 2009 on XP and RT
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