Changing data copy mode

Right now I´m importing data to Matlab using the command importdata(-pastespecial) which allowed me to copy columns from excel to arrays in Matlab. However when I try it in another computer instead of transforming it to arrays, Matlab creates a structure out of it.... The data in excel is separated with commas (as given by the machine in the lab). Is there a way to change how Matlab copies it?. In the other computer it was doing it perfectly.

[Walter Roberson]

Is it possible that the first system is ms windows with excel installed but that the other one is is either not windows or does not have excel installed?

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[Eduardo Gaona Peña]

Nevermind, it was actually the new computer changing the notation on the excel file... friking microsoft. Long life Matlab :D