Import excel and plot xy graph

Hii NI Forum Members,
I would like to plot the XY graph (2 vertical axes with pressure and temp and 1 horizontal axis time),in parallel the values are generated in excel sheet with 3 columns and with multiple rows.
Hence,How can i import the excel sheet columns and rows and plot the generated excel sheet values in XY graph of LabVIEW
Waiting for your vauable reply,
Raj

Why don't you use the Report Generation toolkit? It has plenty of Excel-related vis. You can import data from any of the worksheets and after garbaging the non-number data you can convert it to numbers as well (or if you do not have any string-cells, only numbers you can import it as a 2d numeric array by changing the array constant). If you do not wire any input to the report generation, it does not overwrite your data. (The excel sheet goes to template.)
I just tried it with an xlsx file and worked fine.
After importing the data you can manipulate it the way you want it, for example plotting it.
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