Interfacing EXCEL wir an RS232 serial device

I have a need to connect a serial device to EXCEL to capture some ascii
string sent by this device on the speadsheet, I want to build a small VBA
program but I have no information in how to logically connect excel to the
com port.
If anybody has a sample program with comments this will help me a lot.
Thank you and regards

Perhaps these will be useful:



"Poor Man's Serial Instant Messenger"
http://www.htservices.com/Tools/Visu...unications.htm
Visual Basic Serial Communications Example Tutorials Source Code Programs


http://www.cpcug.org/user/clemenzi/t...s/SerialIO.htm
Serial I/O (RS232)

http://www.yes-tele.com/mscomm.html - MSComm


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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Luciano" <Luciano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1371E008-F7BB-4F98-B581-56D50ADBBF4C@microsoft.com...
> I have a need to connect a serial device to EXCEL to capture some ascii
> string sent by this device on the speadsheet, I want to build a small VBA
> program but I have no information in how to logically connect excel to the
> com port.
> If anybody has a sample program with comments this will help me a lot.
> Thank you and regards

For ref: People arriving on this thread can also try here: http://dev.emcelettronica.com/serial...tion-excel-vba
Sadly though I couldn't get it to work. I go not response at all from any of the buttons
(ok I've not had time to try and find out why) but commenter's on that page do report it works.)

If anyone does get it to word, please tell me what you did (if different). Thank you.