Read big Excel file on Mac problem.

Dear All,

We have an application that will read from an Excel file holding the data, numerical and text. I would like to use one of the powerful Mac to do the computing. However, the Matlab xlsread won't work on Mac. I found some solutions which require saving to other versions of Excel. But it does not work for me due to the column limitation of 256. Our spreadsheets contain more than that. Does anyone find a solution to this issue?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Yonghe

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Solutions:

• write the data with fewer columns
• use a different file format
• write your own xlsread() routines, perhaps drawing upon the API for OpenOffice
• upgrade to R2012a or later

[Yonghe]

Hello Water,

Thank you for your help! After we upgraded to 2012a on Mac, the excel sheet works now. Sorry for the late reply that it took me a few days to move to 2012a.

As always, I very much appreciate your help!

Yonghe