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How the new release of Microsoft Office
Importer guarantees more pie this holiday season
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA —
We know that the work-a-day world is filled
with deadlines. These deadlines can turn into late nights
at the office, away from our friends and families. Now that
the holiday season is here, we especially want to focus on
our family. This is the time to come together, watch football
and fight over who gets the last bit of apple pie — not
spend nights and weekends toiling away at tedious design tasks
that eat up leisure time. Axiom likes to do its part in helping
families come together during this time.
Frequently, we speak to MicroStation users who have difficulties
not just importing their Excel spreadsheets and Word documents
into their design files, but also managing how the data inside
these spreadsheets and documents is formatted in their design
files. Microsoft Office Importer has always helped
these users save valuable time when importing and managing
the formatting of spreadsheet or document data in their MicroStation
design files.
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| The "office updateall"
key-in will automatically update all Microsoft Office
Importer links in a design file. |
With the newest release of Microsoft
Office Importer, users can save even more time when managing
data from Excel and Word documents that has been imported
into MicroStation.
Update All
Microsoft Office Importer versions 3.9b and 8.5e have
the ability to automatically update all of the pastes in a
single design file with a key-in command.
The key-in command "office updateall" now allows
users to update all the linked spreadsheets and documents
in the active design file at any time. Previous versions only
updated all of the links when the design file was opened.
The only way to update all of the imported Microsoft Office
Importer links was to close the design file and reopen
it. Now, all a user has to do is execute the key-in command
for all of the links to be updated at any time while Office
Importer is loaded.
Flawless formatting internationally
Microsoft Office Importer users have always enjoyed flawless
formatting of their Excel spreadsheets and Word documents
when importing them into their design files. International
users, however, namely users in China and Japan, have not
been able to partake in Microsoft Office Importer's
formatting excellence. Unicode is a method of storing characters
using 16 bits rather than the standard ASCII 8 bits. This
allows support for more characters, especially useful with
languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Greek. Prior to Microsoft
Office Importer version 8.5c, these users could not successfully
import Chinese and Japanese fonts into their design files.
The reason for this was Microsoft Office Importer's
lack of Unicode font support.
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| Using the Paste Special | Linked
Text to Design File command in MicroStation leaves imported
Unicode text as question marks, whereas Microsoft Office
Importer will import the text perfectly. |
Now, Microsoft Office Importer
can import any Unicode font flawlessly into V8 design files.
Even if the user has a mixture of Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic
and Greek, Office Importer can handle all of the fonts
simultaneously!
Users can control every aspect of their
text as it is imported into their design files. Color, weight,
level, style, font, text size and other attributes are all
changed in the Microsoft Office Importer settings dialog.
Users importing spreadsheets can also dictate the color, weight,
style and level of their borderlines.
This latest release of Microsoft Office Importer streamlines
the task of updating all spreadsheet and document data imported
into a design file, while maintaining Unicode fonts used in
the source file. With each release of Microsoft Office
Importer we are constantly changing the way MicroStation
users look at importing spreadsheets and documents into their
design files.
Call now!
With the holidays around the corner, make
sure you save room for that extra slice of pumpkin pie because
with Microsoft
Office Importer it looks like you'll be home early
enough to have a second helping! For more information on Microsoft
Office Importer contact an Axiom MicroStation Consultant today!
Call 727-442-7774 extension 9645, e-mail 9645@AxiomInt.com.or
visit Axiom on the Web at www.AxiomInt.com now!
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