view an excel sheet in LabView8.0

[Soumya_Mathew]

Hi,

I am using LabView8.0. i have a normal button on the front pannel. i have to handdle an event for this button that, if i clicked on this button, an excel file(existed) should open. can you please tell me how can i acheive this.

Thanks,

Bannu.

[Kenny_K]

i would suggest reviewing the examples for events that ship with labview.

you can accomplish what you are asking by using an event structure, createing an event that handles a change in the button, and then use the Read Shreadsheet File.vi located in File I/O pallete.

[Dennis_Knutson]

One small correction. The Read From Spreadsheet File will not read a native Excel file. There is however, a shippiong example called Write Table to Excel which does show you how to open an .xls file. There is also the Excel Board where you can find other examples. If none of that helps, do a search for Excel in the LabVIEW board. There are several thousand results returned and at least one of those will help.

[Kenny_K]

My mistake, I forgot excel saves differently by default.

[Michael_Munroe]

If there is no interaction with the contents of the Excel workbook, I suggest that you simply pass the file path to the System Exec vi and let windows open Excel for you.