Saving an analogue signal to Excel

[Wes Uk]

Hi, I'm trying desperately to record an analogue voltage signal in a format that can be opened in excel. The code that I have written works fine however when i come to open the file it is full of weird ?›°‰ ?£ØGG?›°‰ ?‘?b‹â‹Þ@ stuff why is this happening?

After looking over several forum postings on the subject I am still left with some questions.

It seams that I need to build an array or use the Active x function. I have tried a few times to add an array into my code but have been having difficulties

+ another part of my code is a login screen which saves the user name and date, how can i have the user details saved with the data recorded by the DAQ? 

Thanks Wes

[Dennis_Knutson]

Naming a file with a .csv extension does not automatically make it a .csv file. You actually have to write the data as text and put separators between the columns. You have a wired a 1D array of DBL to the data input of your file write so that is the data type that is being written - binary data. Why don't you just use Write to Spreadsheet File or Write LabVIEW Measurement File? Either one will convert your DBL array to strings and that is what you want.

[Wes Uk]

Problem sorted.. i used the express vi for saving data

Cheers Wes