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Pulling out hair - Inserting Word into Cad

Pulling out hair - Inserting Word into Cad

Pulling out hair - Inserting Word into Cad

(OP)
How do I insert a word document into Autocad and have it remember my formatting?

I am trying to insert general notes created in Word onto an Autocad plan sheet.  I can't get the text to insert with out either creating long lines of text or I completely lose my formatting all together.  I would like to insert my text and have it look exactly like my Word document (spacing, tabs, indentations, etc.).

Thanks In Advance.
Chris K

RE: Pulling out hair - Inserting Word into Cad

"YEAH!"
I'm with Chris ...
I'd like to see that happen.
I've tried with no success.
After importing the text, I always have to "RE-FORMAT".
At this point, I setup the file with an MTEXT window open ... and have one of the assistance re-type it with tabs, etc... At least for long specs or general notes.
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I hope "FH" or "BorgUnit" have a LISP for this problem. Or anyone for that matter.
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RE: Pulling out hair - Inserting Word into Cad

I do not use it too much but you can if you choose INSERT >> OLE Object >> CREATE FROM FILE and then browse to the file you want to insert (i.e. WORD doc). You may need to edit the file into the exact way you want first, but it seems to work OK.

RE: Pulling out hair - Inserting Word into Cad

Hi guys,
It needs a lot of programming efforts and can be done using VisualLISP or VBA (VBA is better). Uunfortunately I have no code ready to do that task but if I find, I will let you know.
:)
Farzad

RE: Pulling out hair - Inserting Word into Cad

Look into SmartNotes.  You didn't mention what release of ACAD you were running, but this works on 2000 and up.  There is a 45 day free trial, which is more than enough time to see if it suits your needs.  I have never used this product myself, but I thought I might point it out to see if it could benefit you:
http://cadopolis.com/prodsmartnotes.asp

Flores

RE: Pulling out hair - Inserting Word into Cad

Oh, I guess I was not following exactly what you were saying. You are looking to make them ACAD objects and not OLE. Anyway, I have had good luck with saving my Word doc as an rtf file and then from the mtext dialog, importing that text. Let me know if this helps any.

RE: Pulling out hair - Inserting Word into Cad

(OP)
I am running 2002.  

rtf. files are limited to 16k and the notes I want to insert are 200k+.  I did find a lisp to insert notes which works ok.  You need to save the doc. file as an asc. file.  This works pretty good but you still lose some formatting.  So I'm still looking for a lisp to inserting doc. files if this is even possible.

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