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Have a look at
>> doc xlsread

xlsread splits the Excel data into two parts: numeric and 
string
The numbers are output as the first argument, the strings 
are output as the second argument (as a cell array).
Dates are read in as strings and hence appear in the second 
output.

>> [num,txt] = xlsread('YourFileName.xls');

Phil.