Shakes;
You can download modified versions reading text files from file VIs from my website. One of those is
Read Strings From Spreadsheet File, a modification of the
Read From Spreadsheet File VI included with LabVIEW.
http://www.jyestudio.com/lview.shtml
I hope they are of help.
Regards;
Enrique Vargas
www.vartortech.com