How to get String of data from COM port using LabView and store to excel

[Suyash]

I am a newbie in labview and am trying to get data from COM port. My data is in arbritary format say 16 bytes of data coming in each second. I want to store this data in 4 coloums where each column will have 4 bytes of data. in excel file Can you please tell me how to do this?

Thanks for your help in advance

[mikeporter]

Check the examples that come with LV. There are examples for reading and writing a serial port, and transferring data to Excel. They should get you pointed in the right direction.

Mike...

[smercurio_fc]

Do you absolutely have to use Excel? You may want to consider using the Write to Spreadsheet File. This creates a delimited text file that can be opened with Excel. The advantage is that it's simple, and you don't have to mess around with ActiveX, as that is what you will need to do to write to an Excel workbook.