spreadsheet link for MAC

Is spreadsheet link still not available for MAC? Are there any workarounds? Can the database toolbox do the trick? Thanks.

[健翔]

how about now?

[Walter Roberson]

@健翔

Spreadsheet link uses activex to communicate with Excel. It is restricted to MS Windows as activex support is restricted to MS Windows. MS Excel for Windows is the only version of Excel that has support for activex: Excel for Mac does not have activex support built in to it.

It is quite unlikely that Mathworks will add activex support for Mac or Linux. Mathworks would be more likely to add .NET support . Unfortunately, Excel for Mac or Linux do not have .NET support either.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Spreadsheet Link is only for MS Windows with Microsoft Office installed.

The database toolbox cannot do the trick.

Spreadsheet Link uses ActiveX controls to talk to the spreadsheets software. Microsoft Office for Mac does not have ActiveX compiled into it, so even if you were to get an ActiveX library for Mac (possible, though not at all common) it would not work with Office for Mac.

The closest you could get to a work-around would probably be to use loadlibary to call the API for Libre Office (the successor to OpenOffice.)