labview interface with excel

[salsabeel98]

How can I build a VI that read a signal .. using excel?  

[GerdW]

Hi salsabeel,

why do you need Excel to read a signal?

Don't you use DAQmx or VISA to read signals from your hardware?

For "interfacing LabVIEW with Excel" you should lool for "RGT" or "Excel ActiveX" here in the forum…

[RTSLVU]

I am guessing you want you LabVIEW program to SAVE data to an Excel spreadsheet, or at least in an Excel compatible format?

A few ways come to mind in order of increasing complexity.

1. Save your data in a simple TAB (or comma) delimited text file, these can be easily opened with Excel
2. Save your data in TDMS format. Using the Excel TDMS plugin TDMS files can be imported into Excel
3. Use a third party add-on like XLR8, saves to actual .XLSX files and Excel does not need to be installed on the target machine.
4. Use LabVIEW Excel report generation toolkit, saves to actual .XLSX files but requires Excel to be installed on the target machine.