write to excel using Range function - Excel_write_range.vi

[labview_beginner]

I am using the write using range Excel function to dump some data into Excel.

My data is an array consisting of decimal numbers (data type double) but I have to use "Number To Fractional String" before I can dump this array into Excel. And then when I open the output excel file, you have all these warnings for each cell saying, "number displayed as string". Is there a way to instead dump numbers (in format double) into the Excel. That way each cell in the excel output file will already be formatted as a number instead of string.

Thanks in advance.

[smercurio_fc]

I'm assuming you're actually using ActiveX to write out Excel files. I say this because a lot of people say "Excel files" when they're really talking about spreadsheet-formatted files, generated using the Write to Spreadsheet File VI. That said, the "Value" ("Value 2" in newer versions of Excel) is a variant, so you can wire any datatype to it. Just wire the numeric value directly.