Reading text from a spreadsheet file

Hi,

How can I read text from a spreadsheet, when my vi already has a spreadsheet being read for integers? I tried to use the index array to take a column from the file which contains text, and create an indicator to show the text from that column on the front panel. But because I already have integer indicators coming from the index array, it created with another integer indicator instead of string which does not show any of the text.