how to read data from excel?532 (5/20/2012 2:36:34 AM) comp.soft-sys.matlab We wrote the general code likie this: clear all;clc; [data, name]=xlsread('MFIN6201 Group Assignment Data Spreadsheet.xls'); y = getnameidx(name, {'ASX200'}); x1=getnameidx(name, {'Unemployment','D2:D65'}); ... John