Excel to labview

I have run a LV program. I have stored the data into an excel worksheet. I have cleared the graph from the front panel. Now I would like to see the graph again in the front panel. Is that possible? Feeding saved data back into the LV to look  at the graphs again.

reading a tab delimited file is much easier than inporting from excell, but you can open a reference to excel in labview and manipulate data through activeX control properitirs and methods.  You should even be able to open a workbook, get a sheet and save as all through automation, but I havent done this for a while.  I have been trying to save data in a more open standard like XML or ascii text.  Thomas is right if you want the fastest method (assuming small number of files) just save it back as a text file and open it with a read spreadsheet vi.
Paul
Paul Falkenstein
Coleman Technologies Inc.
CLA, CPI, AIA-Vision
Labview 4.0- 2013, RT, Vision, FPGA

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