Write a number and value to the same cell in excel?

This may be an obvious question, but is it possible to write a phrase to an excel spreadsheet such as "XXX grams" where XXX is a value from the program? I've tried used fprintf and sprintf commands to generate this but they only print the quoted portion to the command window. When I go to open the excel file, it prints and entirely wrong number. For example if i'm trying to print "1.25 grams", it will print 1 or some outrageous number such as 14 or 16.

Should I just give up and assume that matlab can't actually do this, or am I doing something wrong?

n = 1.25 % user desired value

A1 = fprintf('%f gram \n',n)
A2 = sprintf('%d gram \n',n)
xlswrite('MP_D.xls',A1,'M_Data','B2')

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

EDIT

n = 1.25 % user desired value
A = {sprintf('%d gram \n',n)}
xlswrite('MP_D.xls',A)

[Jess]

Thanks, but as I said, I am trying to print the string in a single cell, not as an array of single characters spread across several cells.

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Look at edted answer

[Jess]

Thank you!! Eventually I'll master these brackets... :)