{"id":1867,"date":"2006-02-21T14:12:42","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T19:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2016-05-10T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T18:30:19","slug":"data-acquisition-from-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2006\/02\/21\/data-acquisition-from-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Acquisition from Word?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;d have thought that you could acquire data from test hardware from directly within a Microsoft Word document? Who&#8217;d have thought that anybody would even want to?<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Woodruff did, that&#8217;s who. Ethan has long been a fan of the under-utilized MATLAB Notebook feature, that allows you to execute MATLAB commands from within a Word document. He has found that this is great for academic settings, giving a very friendly way for professors to introduce students to the power of MATLAB while starting in a familiar environment.<\/p>\n<p>Ethan just posted a quick tutorial he developed for professors that is an introduction to the Notebook interface, with examples specifically relevant to Test and Measurement applications. <a title=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/loadFile.do?objectId=9975&amp;objectType=file (link no longer works)\">Educational Lab Report Data Acquisition Example<\/a> paints an interesting vision of how Notebook can be used to enhance the experience of working with MATLAB. I hope that it gives you good ideas to go off and try on your own. Thanks, Ethan.<\/p>\n<p>A few notes as you work through Ethan&#8217;s examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you start Notebook, it will start a separate session of MATLAB as an automation server. Make sure that all of the files he provided are in the path (or current directory) of this new MATLAB session.<\/li>\n<li>While you can run some of the demo with just MATLAB, you need the Data Acquisition Toolbox and the Instrument Control Toolbox to run the entire file.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t expect the example &#8220;simpleIC&#8221; to work out of the box, since it is configured for Ethan&#8217;s hardware setup. I&#8217;d suggest you use TMTOOL (in the Instrument Control Toolbox) to auto-generate an equivalent file that works with your hardware.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;d have thought that you could acquire data from test hardware from directly within a Microsoft Word document? Who&#8217;d have thought that anybody would even want to?<br \/>\nEthan Woodruff did,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2006\/02\/21\/data-acquisition-from-word\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7030,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/7030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}