How do you open a .xlsx file in excel from matlab.

I am trying to open up a .xlsx file from matlab, and have it open in excel. Right now I am using the command open(filename). This will open the .xlsx in matlab, but i want it opened in excel. The command opentxt(filename) is nice, because it will open a .txt file in notepad. I am looking for something like that for .xls/.xlsx files in excel.

[MD Anower Hossain]

its very easy just type

xlsread('the name location of xlsx file or name the file');

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

winopen('yourfile.xls')

[ahmed mahdy]

Thanks...you solved a big problem of me

[Akhil Reddy]

What if I want to open specific sheet?

[Nom]

Thank you so much even today in 2019!

I spent an hour trying to use fopen to open my excel document until I stumbled upon this question!

[Manish Shankar Neelgar]

Thank you for letting us know about this command.

But, could you please tell me how can I open a specific sheet/sheets in excel?

Thank you

[KAE]

This even works to open a CSV file in Excel from within Matlab R2023b, which is what I needed to do. Thanks!

Answer 2

[Lingfei Tang]

For Linux/MacOS it is uiopen('file.xlsx') or just open.

There is no way to open externally but there is a "macopen" function downlodable in file exchange.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/42808-macopen

Answer 3

[ryan]

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.

Answer 4

[noda farfosha]

how can i collect more than workspace in only one?