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12 Oct 2011
Works with Word, too!
By Eiren Smith
Have you ever suffered from the myriad shortcomings which plague MicroStation's "Paste Special" command? If you've ever tried to get a tall Excel or Word paste into a short space, you know the kind of problems I'm talking about. In fact, in talking with our customers, we found that one of the tasks that people were taking the longest time ...
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19 Apr 2011
New feature allows Excel and Word data to be flowed into columns.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA — Axiom, the world's largest third-party software developer dedicated to making MicroStation easier, announces a new feature in the latest release of
Microsoft Office Importer called "column flow" which creates and automatically correctly sizes columns on-the-fly, when importing Word and Excel data.
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19 Nov 2009
Axiom's lastest version of
Microsoft Office Importer for MicroStation was enhanced to work seamlessly with Excel 2007 spreadsheet data and Word 2007 documents.
New features were also added including the ability to import hyperlinks from Excel spreadsheets as engineering links in MicroStation and the ability to manage existing Excel chart pastes. Now you can easily change the path stored ...
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14 Oct 2009
Now with ProjectWise support
By Eiren Smith
Want to bring Excel spreadsheet or Word document information into MicroStation with perfect formatting and a link to the original Excel spreadsheet or Word document in case information in the spreadsheet or Word document changes in the future? Do you already use
Microsoft Office Importer but were frustrated because you couldn’t use it on ProjectWise projects?
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14 Oct 2009
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1 Jun 2009
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15 May 2009
By Eiren Smith
What do MicroStation users do if they want to easily import large spreadsheets and word processing data into their design files with perfect formatting? What if they want to maintain a link to the original spreadsheet so that if something changes in the spreadsheet, the design file can be easily — interactively or automatically — updated? What if they use ProjectWise?
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15 May 2009
And four solutions!
Have you ever had difficulty importing text from Microsoft Word or tables from Excel into MicroStation with the correct text justification, tabs and spacing intact?
Have you ever opened a design file and discovered that one or more reference files are not attached due to messed up reference file attachment paths?
Have you ever needed to make changes to some text in hundreds of design ...
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7 Mar 2009
By Rick Sewell
Do your Excel spreadsheets ever import into MicroStation with the right text height? The answer from many MicroStation users across the country is a resounding "No!" Thus, these MicroStation users are forced to either manually type their text using MicroStation's "Place Text" tool with the correct text height or paste the text using one of MicroStation's "Paste Special" options (which does not ...
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1 Mar 2009
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