what is advantage of excel over labview measurment file

[nik48]

hi

     i am doing some data acquision work in labview..i want to know that for data storage which  will be better   , microsoft excel or labview measurment file..       whats advantage &disadvantage of same

[TiTou]

Well in my opinion the best type of file depends on your needs, really... I don't think that one is intrinsicly better than the other.
Do you need to be able to read your file with another soft than labview ?
Do you need to have particular headers on your file ?
...

If you make list of all the possibility you want relativly to your data files then we can discuss on the best format, do you follow me ?

[nik48]

Thanks for suggestion..as you can find out i am new for labview so i may need your suggestion further also

actually i want to store the signal for further analysis purpose..so that if need come then i can read from file &convert them in signal form again.

i also want to open that file on another system which is not having labview installed

[JeffBoettcher]

There's a lot more overhead saving directly to an XLS file, if that's what you're talking about doing.

Since an LVM file is essentially a text file with TAB or comma delimited values with some additional header information (still just plain text though), it's very easy to open it in Excel and have it put things in the proper rows/columns.

I'd recommend LVM because it's much easier to deal with in LabVIEW (from the standpoint of both writing and later reading back and displaying), and it can still be opened and displayed in Excel with minimal effort.