How to change the version of the excell file matlab outputs to?

I am trying to export large numeric arrays from matlab to excel. I'm using the xlswrite command to export the data, but every time I run my script I get the 0x800A03EC error for excel overloading. My problem is that Matlab exports data into (97-03) excel files that have a column limit of 256. Is there a way that I can instruct matlab to export the data into an excel 2010 file where the column limit is over 16,000?

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Indicate the extension xlsx

xlswrite('file.xlsx',M)

[David]

Thanks for the easy fix.