title: Reading strings into Matlab from excel?
body: <p>I would like to read strings into Matlab from an excel file</p>
  
  <pre><code>ID = xlsread('data.xlsx',1, 'D2:D4')
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  <p>the cells in range D2:D4  have strings in them. When I try to import the strings into Matlab all I get is an empty list? what can I do to fix this?</p>