We have an Excel spreadsheet that has been developed previously over time. We would now like to use this spreadsheet to perform calculations using values obtained from calculations perfomed in Mathcad and then return the value obtained in Excel back to Mathcad without including the Excel as an object into Mathcad as the Excel is maintained by another discipline.
The problem we have is that we can send the data to Excel and read the required information back again, but only if the Excel file is not open. This, however, means that the actual calculations are not performed if the Excel file is not actually opened. We would like to perform this action in a batch process for optimization. Having to manually open Excel to calculate makes this impossible.
Is there a method of automatically refreshing the Excel calculations during such a batch process without atually embedding the object.