On the Refine Data page, you access the Link External Data dialog box you can set up a link to an entire Excel spreadsheet, or to a range of rows and columns, to the extracted data.īefore you can link a spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel needs to be installed on the same computer on which the data extraction is performed. Select the columns in the XLS file to merge with the extracted drawing data.Match the extracted drawing data and the spreadsheet data.Specify a data link by selecting an XLS file to which the extracted data from the drawing will be linked.Using the Link External Data dialog box, you can: By linking to an Excel spreadsheet, you can include information from an entire worksheet, or part of a worksheet, referred to as a
