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From: Richard de Garis on 4 Mar 2010 15:34
I have a similar situation to the original poster; I use a Windows machine at work and a Mac at home. Excel acts not only as a front-end data 'server' for Matlab, but as a back-end, and nicely formatted report generator. Basically I need to use Excel! Interfacing with Excel-link is of course seamless on the PC, but a non-starter on the Mac.

Thus the only work I can do at home is Matlab 'engine' development and maintenance, which is easy enough if I first import data at work and write to a .mat file and take that home.

But given that Excel 2008 for mac exists and, as I understand it, employs the same .xlsm .xlsx .xlsb file extensions, surely a mac equivalent of the xlsread, xlswrite, etc. functions can be devised. I'd do it myself, but I'm not nearly expert enough. By the way, if the mac os doesn't use a COM server, what is it using with Excel for mac?

I know the alternative is to use the windows versions running under parallels, but I have an aversion (irrational perhaps) to this approach - I'm hoping the wizards at Mathworks will release a new version of Excel-Link that's compatible with the mac. I don't suppose anyone could tell me if such a development is underway?
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