how to save data in matlab file

Hi fellows, Right now I am using things like

if true
  % DD=xlsread('parameters.xlsx');
end

to read in data from excel. Is there anyway that I can just export the data in excel as matlab file format. It is just sometimes if my excel program doesn't work, then I can't run my matlab program. That is quite annoying...So could you tell me how to do that?

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

You can use save and load command

save filname DD

DD will be saved in a filname.mat

to get your data

load filname