user23206: I am newer to arduinos, and could use some help. I have a LCD screen hooked up to an arduino uno. I can get it to display whatever I type in, which is great. But, what i want it to display is a value from an excel spreadsheet. So, it will change depending on what is in that field. Or even better yet, from access. Is this possible? is there code to have the arduino pull information from an existing table? (assuming it is connected via USB, or, eventually, wifi). thanks!

user11763: Assuming your Excel spreadsheet or Access table is stored on your PC, you can write a PC program to read the file and send the data serially over the USB connection to the connected Arduino, which can display it on the LCD. 
If the file is stored on an SD card instead, and you want the Arduino to access the file directly by reading said SD card (through an Ethernet shield perhaps), you need to make the file format a lot simpler than XLS to ease parsing; CSV is quite simple and suitable for a lot of tasks. The built-in SD library can be employed to read the data from the card, the Arduino parses the data and displays it on the LCD. 
In general, I suggest you do more research.

user23002: It is not the easiest thing to do especially if you are newer to arduinos but Roberto Valgolio has made an Arduino Excel interface: http://www.robertovalgolio.com/sistemi-programmi/arduino-excel
I have not worked with it yet but it's worth looking into it.

23206: <p>I am newer to arduinos, and could use some help. I have a LCD screen hooked up to an arduino uno. I can get it to display whatever I type in, which is great. But, what i want it to display is a value from an excel spreadsheet. So, it will change depending on what is in that field. Or even better yet, from access. Is this possible? is there code to have the arduino pull information from an existing table? (assuming it is connected via USB, or, eventually, wifi). thanks!</p>
 11763: <p>Assuming your Excel spreadsheet or Access table is stored on your PC, you can write a PC program to read the file and send the data serially over the USB connection to the connected Arduino, which can display it on the LCD. </p>

<p>If the file is stored on an SD card instead, and you want the Arduino to access the file directly by reading said SD card (through an Ethernet shield perhaps), you need to make the file format a lot simpler than XLS to ease parsing; CSV is quite simple and suitable for a lot of tasks. The built-in <code>SD</code> library can be employed to read the data from the card, the Arduino parses the data and displays it on the LCD. </p>

<p>In general, I suggest you do more research.</p>
 23002: <p>It is not the easiest thing to do especially if you are newer to arduinos but Roberto Valgolio has made an Arduino Excel interface: <a href="http://www.robertovalgolio.com/sistemi-programmi/arduino-excel" rel="nofollow">http://www.robertovalgolio.com/sistemi-programmi/arduino-excel</a></p>

<p>I have not worked with it yet but it's worth looking into it.</p>
