Matlab and Excel on a Mac

I am working on an excel-based application that uses matlab for the calculations. Since the original release, our company switched to Macs. So here my question:

Does anyone know a way to obtain similar functionality as with excllink when using a Mac? The issues I am having are - reading / writing data to / from a specific range in an Excel-sheet - calling Matlab from Excel (i.e., start it up by pressing a button in Excel)

Answer 1

[Chirag Gupta]

SpreadSheet Link EX (excellink) has always been a Windows only product.

http://www.mathworks.com/products/excellink/requirements.html

As far as I know there isn't any built in functionality to communicate to Excel on a MAC apart from using the:

xlsread and xlswrite functions (in the basic form, as explained in the documentation)

http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/xlsread.html

Answer 2

[Karin]

Problem with basic mode is that you cannot address ranges.

[Walter Roberson]

Yup. That's how it goes.