Complete noob

Hi there first of all, i am completly new into VB, i want to learn some because of a project i am intended to do.


I need to be able to read information from a COM port and insert it into excel, i have seen lts of things in the web but haven't been able to do this in excel, i added the mscomm into the regisrty, tried inserting the activex control, but it wont work, it can't be inserted, idk why.

Is this what i should be doing? or is something else needed?

Thanks!