Re: Result from particle analysis saved as XLS is not XLS?

Posted by Michael Schmid on Apr 28, 2010; 1:50pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Result-from-particle-analysis-saved-as-XLS-is-not-XLS-tp3688470p3688471.html

Hi Cspr,

you can set the extension in Edit>Options>input/output.
Maybe Matlab is more happy with ".txt"
Some programs might also understand '.csv', although the files do not  
contain comma-separated but rather tab-separated lists.

Michael
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On 28 Apr 2010, at 14:58, Cspr wrote:

> I found this very interesting.
>
> After running a analyze particles I save the results as Results.xls
>
> Interestingly when opening the XLS file is Microsoft Excel 2007 I  
> am told by
> Exel that it is not a recognized format and I should be careful about
> opening. Nevertheless allowing the program to open it display the  
> results
> just as they were saved.
>
> Although this is perfectly alright it's somewhat irritating when  
> trying to
> further process the XLS files. The reason for this is that trying  
> to import
> the saved XLS file in MatLab causes an error because of the exact  
> fact that
> apparently the saved XLS file is NOT a Microsoft Excel file.
>
> Anyone else can verify this?