Use xlwrite on a specific cell of an EXcel file

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samar
samar on 27 Oct 2014
Answered: Ronit on 10 Jun 2025
Hi everybody, I want to write matlab program results into an Excel file . For Windows Platform I used to use xlswrite and it works well
Example with xlswrite:
Filename='Results'; sheetName=strcat('Sheet11'); xlwrite(Filename, {'c2'},sheetName,'A7'); xlwrite(Filename, c2,sheetName,'B7');
Now, i need to get the samething with xlwrite that works for both Windows and Mac! write in the same sheet in extended mode on specific cells of an Excel file.
Thank you for your help

Answers (1)

Ronit
Ronit on 10 Jun 2025
Hello @samar,
To write to specific cells in excel on both Windows and Mac, you should use "writematrix", "writecell", or "writetable" functions. These functions work cross-platform, including macOS and Linux.
However, unlike "xlswrite", they overwrite the entire sheet by default, so if you want to write to specific cells without deleting others, you’ll need to use "writecell" function.
Please refer to the documentation pages for the above functions for more details regarding their implementation:
I hope this helps!

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