MATLAB: Is Excel Link supported on Mac OS

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I would like to use Excel Link on my Mac. However, the product is available only for Windows. I wanted to know if Excel Link is supported on Mac OS.

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Excel Link is not supported on Mac OS. Excel Link is built on COM Automation, a Microsoft technology for inter-program communication that is not fully available on Mac OS.
To exchange data between Microsoft Excel and MATLAB on Mac, consider the following workarounds:
1. Use XLSREAD to access data on your hard drive from MATLAB, and CSVWRITE or DLMWRITE to export data. Note that both XLSREAD and XLSWRITE operate in a limited Basic mode on platforms where Excel is not available as a COM Automation Server. You can find more information here:
doc xlsread
doc xlswrite
2. Use the SYSTEM or ! commands to execute AppleScript procedures from within MATLAB to access your Excel data. This approach will require significant AppleScript programming. You can find more information about calling AppleScript scripts from MATLAB here:
web([docroot,'/techdoc/matlab_env/f0-12994.html#f0-38522'])
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