Copy from a Microsoft Excel workbook to an AutoCAD R14 drawing

 

Here's a handy tip to copy information from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet into an AutoCAD drawing. Open the AutoCAD drawing where you want to place the Excel information, then open Excel. Next, open the workbook you'll copy from. Press [Ctrl][Shift][Home] to highlight everything in the Excel sheet. Now, press [Ctrl]C to copy the Excel sheet to the Clipboard. Then, minimize Excel and maximize your AutoCAD drawing. From the Edit menu, choose Paste Special. In the Paste Special dialog box, select AutoCAD Entities and then click OK. You can now choose the area of your drawing where you want to paste the Excel sheet. Once you paste the sheet, you can use all of AutoCAD's functions, such as Explode, Scale, etc. 

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