We could tell you, but then we'd have to shoot you and set fire to your house.

I know nothing of matlab code, but Google turned this up
http://www.mathworks.com/access/help...f/xlsread.html

Maybe that'll get you going?

" wrote:

hi, could you guys tell me how to write a matlab code to read data in
an excel file on a remote sever? to access this server, you also need
to provide cookie...

thanks in advance~!