Viewing Data in real-time with excel

[MechEChris]

Currently I am using labview to output the data into an excel spreadsheet.  Is there someway that I can have the data output with the spreadsheet open so I can see the results as the data is returned?  Currently I am typically doing experiments with sample intervals of 5 seconds and a total time of 300 seconds.

Any Ideas, or am I missing something fairly obvious?  I am rather new to LabView.

Thanks

[Will.D]

Are you using the report generation toolkit?  This is fairly easy but the answer depends on how you're writing to excel.

Can you post some code so we can take a look?  Or explain more of what you've tried thus far?

[MechEChris]

I am using the box diagrams, not actual code, with labview 8.0.  I could post the file on the web but I do not know how to get a code representation of it.  Like I said I'm new to labview and have only used the tutorials and How-To book to make the program.

Thanks,

Chris

[Dennis_Knutson]

The BLOCK diagram is the actual code. Exactly what functions are you using to write to Excel?

[MechEChris]

www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/cdboyd/labview.vi

is the file, I'm not on a PC with labview at the moment but Im headed into the lab soon and will post some later.

Thanks