Read excel cell when excel is already open

Hello,
I want to read a specific cell of a sheet with excel already open. Labview has only to read the cell and not have to open excel.
I have several examples that show :
Labvview open excel
select excel file
select workbook
select sheet
select cell
read cell
close workbook
close excel
In my vi i only need the step 3 to 6
Thank for your help
Djamel
Solved!
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The attached (LabVIEW 2012) vi will return the value in the cell 'A1' of 'Sheet1' of the already open excel workbook 'book1'
Change the values for your specific names of workbook and worksheet and required cell.
The value returned is a variant so need to be converted with 'Variant to Data' according to data type
Ken
Attachments:
Get cell value from already open Excel.vi ‏18 KB

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