MATLAB: How to read the Sheet name present in any Excel file

importing excel data

I am working on a script , that will read the data present in an excel file. The sheet is an standard template one . There are many Sheets present in a excel file (and will vary depending upon the various products that we have … and i am trying to make a general script that will work over all excel files).

Is there any way to find out the names of the sheets in the excel file ?

I have tried 'xlsread' , but that didn't help much

is there any command that will help me fetch the total number of sheets and their names ?

Regards, Ajay

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"xlsfinfo" will get you a list of sheet names.

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MATLAB: How to rename a sheet in Excel using the COM interface in MATLAB

You can rename an Excel sheet using the "Name" property of a sheet object. For example the following renames the first sheet of an Excel file:

filename = 'C:\SomeExcelFile.xls';
% Open Excel Automation server
Excel = actxserver('Excel.Application');
% Make Excel visible
Excel.Visible=1;
% Open Excel file
Workbook = Excel.Workbooks.Open(filename);
% Get the list of sheets in the workbook
Sheets = Excel.ActiveWorkbook.Sheets;
% Rename the first sheet
Sheets.Item(1).Name = 'This is sheet 1';

The following code then saves the Workbook, quits Excel and removes the COM server:

% Save the file
Workbook.Save();
% Quit Excel, remove the COM server and delete the related objects
Excel.Quit();
Excel.delete();
clear Excel;
clear Workbook;
clear Sheets;

MATLAB: How to open an existing Excel file and communicate with it using ActiveX

This bug has been fixed in Release 14 Service Pack 3 (R14SP3). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

The following provides an example of opening an existing Excel file named example.xls and proceeding to write and read with it:

% Specify file name
file = 'D:\Applications\MATLAB701\work\example.xls'; % This must be full path name
% Open Excel Automation server
Excel = actxserver('Excel.Application');
Workbooks = Excel.Workbooks;
% Make Excel visible
Excel.Visible=1;
% Open Excel file
Workbook=Workbooks.Open(file);
% Specify sheet number, data, and range to write to 
sheetnum=1;
data=rand(4);  % use a cell array if you want both numeric and text data
range = 'F10:I13';
% Make the first sheet active
Sheets = Excel.ActiveWorkBook.Sheets;
sheet1 = get(Sheets, 'Item', sheetnum);
invoke(sheet1, 'Activate');
Activesheet = Excel.Activesheet;
% Put MATLAB data into Excel
ActivesheetRange = get(Activesheet,'Range',range);
set(ActivesheetRange, 'Value', data);
% Here you might manipulate the data in Excel
% Now read the data from the sheet; you could specify a new range here
Range = get(Activesheet,'Range',range);
out = Range.value;
% Save file
invoke(Workbook,'Save')
% Close Excel and clean up
invoke(Excel,'Quit');
delete(Excel);
clear Excel;

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