LiveLink™ for Excel® Installations
If you have licensed LiveLink™ for Excel®, the installer registers an add-in with Excel. When the add-in is active, several tools for working with a COMSOL Multiphysics model from an Excel worksheet are accessible from a COMSOL tab in the Excel ribbon. You can, for example, extract model definitions and results. You can also change model definitions in the worksheet, then update and recompute the model.
Whenever you open a COMSOL Multiphysics model from Excel, a COMSOL Multiphysics server is started where the model is loaded. The data transfer between Excel and the COMSOL Multiphysics server application is performed using a TCP/IP communication protocol, which accepts only local connections.