Connecting Excel to Step 7

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Plácido Pérez

I've got a Step 7 proyect with an Ethernet module so, I need read and write some words between the PLC and Mocrosoft Excel but I don't know what is the best way.

If someone could support, I would really be appreciated.
 
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Mustafa Al-mosawi

Firstly, I always ask - why are you interested in reading and writing from Excel? What is your application?

If you're just looking for a 'simple answer':
I would use the MatrikonOPC Siemens S7 Driver

http://www.matrikonopc.com/opc-drivers/309/base-driver-details.aspx

and combine it with the easy-to-use Matrikon Analytics Excel Reporter

http://www.matrikonanalytics.com/products/excel-reporter.aspx

It takes no programming, and you can use it directly - just select your tags and go. You can schedule things if you need to do things on a regular basis.
 
If you have Siemens SCADA WinCC also in your application then you can use its inbuilt driver DDE (Dynamic data exhange) which directly communicates with MS applications (like Excel) and its easy to implement (just to put one VB code in XL, which is also available with WinCC help). So finally intead of communicating with S7 PLC, XL will communicate with WinCC and WinCC will inturn communicate with S7 PLC.
 
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