andTo86:
You should be able to piece together some sample code to write the serial directly to a .csv. You can open them with excel, but you have to open excel first, then open the file from within excel, and it will launch a wizard to import your data.
If you go see the templogger page here:-Standalone Temperature/Voltage Logger updated to v1.1 « insideGadgets
you will see that somehow whatever application you have open -spreadsheet , text write ,notepad etc when the button is pressed on the device which is plugged into the USB then data flows into the application?
He used to use V-USB which I assume is a small program library included with his arduino code.Now he uses a "SATVLTransfer code which does the same thing. I do not understand how it gets into the applications automatically?
Yes I do not use Windows or any silly VB code