how to read data from excel file in matlab?

Question

I need to read data from my excel file in MATLAB, i need to read all the columns and rows , but i don't want the headers of the columns, i.e i need to start reading the data from second row onwards with all columns. can someone help me in this ? my excel file look like this :

the image is just for clarification , if you want my excel file i can attach that too.

i tried the following code but it also gives the headers text and the empty columns text

filename = 'C:\\Users\Zeeshan\Desktop\box_annotation.xlsx';
[subsetA txt]= xlsread(filename)

Answer 1

Try this if it works

delimiter='';
A =importdata('Filename.xlsx',delimiter,1);

%Then to access the data, command can be given
A.data