I cannot get a String including the formats, like symol (D>Delta in "greek") from a EXCEL- cell with aktiv X under Labview 6 to use as the same original string, like the EXCEL cell contents

[germany]

Im using WIN/EXCEL 2000, LabView 6.1.
The datafile, where I extract is a *.xls file. With active X from Labview, I like to get the complete contents of a EXCEL cell, including greek formatted (symbol) parts of the cell string. What ever I tried to do, I always get a "D" for greek Delta.
I use in aktiv X: read Range(Cell) > Value.
How can I solve my problem ?

[mikeporter]

The problem is fonts. Excel lets you specify fonts on a character-by-character basis. LV does not. Can you move the "delta" part into a label or something like that?

Mike...

[Greg_McKaskle2]

> The problem is fonts. Excel lets you specify fonts on a
> character-by-character basis. LV does not. Can you move the "delta"
> part into a label or something like that?
>

Or, the problem could be that Excel is using unicode to store the
string. LV doesn't currently support unicode, so strings coming in from
the clipboard or through ActiveX will be filtered to the current locale,
Western Latin for most of us, and nonstandard characters which aren't in
the lower 256 will be converted to something which is.

Greg McKaskle

[germany]

Many Thanks for Your prompt replay.
1. I dont have a lable in EXCEL - I got a cell string like "greek D + pressure".
2. Aktive x in Visual Basic seems to work - in LabView I dont have all of the propertys and methods given from the EXCEL - OLB files like VBA.
3. If I could read the string in \ - code or hex number I cold convert it digit for digit back to a string.

Finaly I think this problem is not to solve under LV 6.1

best reguards

Rainer