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Excel into AutoCAD

Excel into AutoCAD

Excel into AutoCAD

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I pasted an Excel spreadsheet into AutoCAD and lost alot of characters that were in one of the cells.  There appears to be a limit as to the number of characters that can be in a cell.  Is there anything that can be done about this problem?

RE: Excel into AutoCAD

When you imported the excell file,
what were your decimal limits set to?
Were the digits whole numbers or
decimals?

RE: Excel into AutoCAD

Forget pasting Excel sheets.  A 3rd party application called AutoXLS allows you to create, edit and insert Excel tables into AutoCAD and it looks exactly like AutoCAD geometry and text.  In fact it creates an editable block that references an Excel file or you can delete the Excel file and it will create a temp file when you edit the table.  The company is at CADADDON.com . There is other 3rd party software too but this is a pretty good one.  No, I don't work for the company.  I dislike creating tables in AutoCAD and this has saved me loads of time.

RE: Excel into AutoCAD

As cadranger mentioned you need a 3rd party application.  Another is xl2cad from www.dotsoft.com (it appears more affordable than AutoXLS).

The problem is a limit in the Windows clipboard and OLE, not Autocad.

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