How to get a vector from an excel sheet

I have an excel sheet from which I am reading the data using xlsread function. But it stores the output in a matrix. I want the output in a vector. Is there any way to do it directly. Or else how to convert the matrix thus obtained into a vector?

thank you, Debanjan

Answer 1

[pietro]

xlsread can read a specific range so in case your range is a column you get a column array.

Answer 2

[Ken Atwell]

Conversion from matrix to vector is:

 >> x = x(:);