Importing from excel to matlab

Hi,

I am trying to import a table from excel to matlab but I am facing many problems:

1.R (superscript) 2 (i.e. r square) becomes R2

2.α and β disappeared

3.Merged cells that are underlined return back to multiple cell where the first one contains the string of the merged cells and the underline disappear.

Is there a way to overcome these problems when importing from excel to matlab?

Answer 1

[Oleg Komarov]

Those issues pertain to the format which is not preserved when importing. I guess you could use ActiveX to parse the excel and retrieve the various formats and apply them to the data once imported but it's not a trivial task.

[Danielle Leblanc]

Is there at least a way to write them in a cell array using matlab.I mean can I write aplha , beta and superscripts in matlab?

[Oleg Komarov]

Not that I know of.

You can display as a text label:

text(.5,.5,'a','FontN','symbol')