Import Excel spreadsheets and Word docs into AutoCAD with fabulous formatting!
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Gain Control Over Document and Spreadsheet Importing
You’ve been there — a project deadline is looming and you’ve got to insert enormous Excel® spreadsheets with material information and specs into your AutoCAD® project. You import the first spreadsheet, but it looks nothing like the original Excel version. It imports strangely. The cells are usually off, the numbers are often misplaced, and the result doesn’t follow any set standard, much less your CAD standards. But the clock continues to tick, tick, tick.
Tired of burning daylight importing Excel spreadsheets and Word® docs and trying to get them to look good? Let the sun shine!
Microsoft Office Importer™ saves you lots of time by automatically managing all the little things that must go right when bringing in Excel or Word data.
How is Microsoft Office Importer Going to Help You?
- Easily and quickly import Excel spreadsheets and Word documents into your DWG files in one simple step. This includes schedules, bills of material, general notes and more. The formatting is beautiful and looks just like the original document.
- Effortlessly spread large amounts of data into multiple columns while importing it into AutoCAD. The amount of time saved here can be staggering!
- Enjoy total control over your CAD standards when importing from Excel spreadsheets and Word documents — including color, weight, style, text size, font and more.
- Have no worries about how to keep your Excel and Word data synchronized inside your AutoCAD project. Microsoft Office Importer can automatically link Excel and Word files to your DWG files when you do an import.
- Have your AutoCAD files stay automatically updated with changes made to your linked Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. You have the option to either import the spreadsheet itself or insert a link to it in your project file. Either way, since you don’t have to mess around with the formatting or make manual updates, there’s no more double work for you!
- Enjoy having perfect formatting in AutoCAD with no effort on your part.
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The Impact of Microsoft Office Importer
Microsoft Office Importer saves you valuable time by automatically managing the hundred little things that have to go right.
Microsoft Office Importer eliminates double-work. No more manual data entry and formatting of information that’s already in Excel or Word files.
Microsoft Office Importer gives you the control. You don’t have to sacrifice your standards to achieve fast, top-quality results in record time. Finally get the recognition you deserve.
What About Header Rows in Your Excel Paste?
Often, Excel data such as summaries, schedules, bills of material and the like have header rows at the top. Without Microsoft Office Importer, you would have to paste the header rows separately into your design file for each column except the first column. This is inefficient, not to mention annoying and prone to errors. Microsoft Office Importer can make the creation of these additional header rows automatic as well!
Okay, But What About Really Huge Excel or Word Pastes?
If you’ve ever tried to get a tall Excel or Word paste into a short space, you know the trouble. In fact, in talking with customers, we found that one of the tasks that was taking the longest was trying to make tall pastes fit inside their DWG borders.
These AutoCAD users would manually split up tall data into multiple pastes. Trying to do this is both time-consuming and frustrating. Simply changing text size is almost never an option as the text must be readable in the plot and almost always must follow a CAD standard that dictates the text size.
Fortunately, for Microsoft Office Importer owners, this isn’t an issue.
Microsoft Office Importer has a feature called “split paste into columns”. Now, when you go to put a tall paste into your AutoCAD file, Microsoft Office Importer automatically and intelligently splits your paste into multiple columns so that it fits nicely into the allotted space.
Don’t confuse these columns in the design file with Excel’s columns — the paste that Microsoft Office Importer is splitting into multiple columns can contain as many Excel columns and rows as you like.
In effect, your tall paste flows naturally from one column in your design file to the next column (from left to right).
The result is that your paste starts where you choose and automatically creates one or more “columns” for you.
Save More Time in All You Do
In addition to handling spreadsheet and document pastes into AutoCAD and Civil 3D, Axiom has software that can make every aspect of your CAD work easier. Title Block Manager helps you to automatically manage and update hundreds of title blocks in minutes.
Translation Manager is a go-to tool for engineers who need to get translations between MicroStation and AutoCAD done right the first time. For a look at all our applications, see our time-saving tools for both AutoCAD, Revit and MicroStation.
What Our Customers Say
“I’ve used Axiom’s Microsoft Office Importer for years. We currently use it with our tables for roadway elevations. We do elevation tabulation sheets. One spreadsheet can have 40 rows of information or more, covering several miles of highway, with several sheets. When I’m done using Microsoft Office Importer on them, they LOOK REALLY NICE, and they have A LOT of information. And every time we make an update, it updates our work automatically, it references the updates right in. I’ll tell you, we have A LOT of sheets.
"In the past, it would take one professional several days to get the job done. But when I used Microsoft Office Importer, I did it in half a day. Mine looked just as professional. So we have simply abandoned the old way of doing it.
“Microsoft Office Importer formats the sheets exactly how I want them. When there is a time constraint — which is always — using Microsoft Office Importer has been critical for us. Now we can get more done. Microsoft Office Importer gets all the rows right. We reference the spreadsheet in, and it updates perfectly. You can reformat it just the way you want it, every single time. It follows the CAD format just the way we want it. Our projects are custom jobs, so perfection is key. I’m a lifelong fan.”
Abe Arollo
CAD Manager
AECOM
“We especially use Axiom’s tool, Microsoft Office Importer, for importing quantities and spreadsheets from Excel into MicroStation. To try to update and do this from scratch without Microsoft Office Importer is very time-consuming, and it is much easier to import into MicroStation with Microsoft Office Importer.
"Per project, the amount of time it saves varies, but on our most recent project, we have saved a day’s worth of work per spreadsheet, especially if we have to update and add a column or add a row. On an average project, we have at least 11–12 tables and spreadsheets.
“To say it in a different way, your Microsoft Office Importer tool saved us an estimated three months of full-time work on just one project. It saves quite a bit of money and time. Without Microsoft Office Importer, we’d have to have one person working full time.”