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    Posted: 22.Jun.2011 at 17:08
Is there a way to import excell 2007 into acad 2006?
i can cut and paste, but it brings the table as an object.

what i am trying to replicate is the way it used to work between excell 2003 and autocad 2004.  (the excell info came is as dtext cad text entities) 

I could more easily manipulate them because they were just cad text. And the text was formatted and aligned just like the spreadsheet.

 I really don't want a linked spreadsheet or an mtext version I have to explode and format manually.

Thanks
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Points: 7175 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22.Jun.2011 at 18:26
Can't do a Datalink in 2006 as that feature was introduced in 2008.

You can either bring it in as an OLE object or use some third-party software to manipulate it.  See: http://www.dotsoft.com/xl2cad.htm


Edited by John Connor - 22.Jun.2011 at 18:27
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thanks,
I was hoping to find a workaround or a FREE LISP that would bring in the spread sheet as formatted simple text.

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Points: 7175 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22.Jun.2011 at 23:50
Yes, everyone wants something for nothing.

Take a look at this...Point Manager.

http://lee-mac.com/ptmanager.html
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Points: 2118 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23.Jun.2011 at 09:56
Simple copy-paste (Paste as AutoCAD entities) should work. In newer AutoCAD versions, it brings the table as a TABLE object (AutoCAD table, not OLE table) but you can Explode it to simple entities.
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Points: 3 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23.Jun.2011 at 17:19
thanks John

is that LISP only for importing points?
will it bring in text from excell as i have described.

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Take a look at this discussion too re: Text from Excel into AutoCAD.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-2000-2000i-2002-Archive/Import-Excel-to-AutoCAD/td-p/939170
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