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The only obvious method appears to be to use a mono-spaced font and space out the columns with multiple spaces, which is not very satisfactory. 21 Some users create their tables in Microsoft Excel and then paste a selected region of the Excel table into AutoCAD as an OLE linked object. That has its problems. If you use a black background, as most AutoCAD users seem to do persist with, despite my advice, then the Excel table with its white background looks a bit odd. But, more seriously, Microsoft?s OLE mechanism in Windows is far from reliable, has severe limitations on the amount of linked data, and is a serious resource hog. I have always recommended AutoCAD users to avoid OLE if possible, and it usually is. 22 I only found out recently from a long-time user of AutoCAD that it is possible to import Excel table data quite satisfactorily as AutoCAD text. To prove this and explain the options, I made a test table in Excel by cutting some text out of part of the ACAD.PGP file and editing it with tabs so that it would paste into Excel in rows and columns. The illustration here shows three ways at pasting it into AutoCAD. After selecting the cell range in Excel and copying it to the clipboard by Ctrl-C, I opened AutoCAD and used the Edit menu, Paste Special. The resulting dialog box, shown here, presents several options of the form in which to paste the clipboard data. 23 Method 1 used the ?Paste as text? option. The result is a single ?Multiline Text? object, with each row of Excel cells as one text line with hard line-end, but with all the column spacing lost. That?s not much use as a text table. Also, even though pasting Word text into AutoCAD?s Mtext dialog-editor preserves the fonts and formatting nicely, this operation ignored the Excel text format and inserted it as the current AutoCAD Style, which in my test used the awful-looking TXT.SHX font that is still AutoCAD?s default for its Standard Style. 24 Method 2 used the ?Paste as Picture (Metafile)? option. This gives quite a good result, more so if you use a white background in AutoCAD, but you cannot edit it in any way at all. 25 Method 3 is the most satisfactory, I think. This used the option that surprised me: ?Paste as \%PRODUCT entities?. I cannot find any reference to any such type of entity. It inserts the cells each as a separate ?Single-line Text? object, and automatically organises the insertion points of the text objects vertically and horizontally to form a sensibly arranged table. It also, and rather surprisingly, creates new Text Styles to reproduce the format of the Excel text! In my test, which used Excel?s default Arial font and size, but with the header row in bold, the pasted text objects used new Styles called ?WMF-Arial0? (for the top row in bold) and ?WMF-Arial1? (for the other cells). 26 I also tried it with one of the cells set up in Excel with wrapped multi-line text. This pasted into AutoCAD with each wrapped line as a separate single-line text object. It spaced the adjoining cells appropriately even though they had only single-line text in them. 27 This method allows for some minor text editing in AutoCAD, since the text is ordinary text. If the editing widened a cell of text so that it overlapped, you?d have to manually move all the other cells around to make room and keep the tabular format. For any serious alterations, it would be better to delete all the pasted text objects, edit the Excel data, and redo the copy-paste operation. 28 So, this ?Paste as \%PRODUCT Entities? facility provides a quite useable text table mechanism. The odd thing is that it seems to be a bit of a secret. 29 This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project 30 to make the world's books discoverable online. 31 It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject 32 to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books 33 are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover. 34 Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the 35 publisher to a library and finally to you. 36 Usage guidelines 37 Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the 38 public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to 39 prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. 40 We also ask that you: 41 + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for 42 personal, non-commercial purposes. 43 + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine 44 translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the 45 use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. 46 + Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find 47 additional materials through Google Book Search. 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You can search through the full text of this book on the web 1 56 I have long bemoaned the absence of any support for tabulated text in AutoCAD, and so have many other people. It is a common need to place tables of textual information on drawings. The only obvious method appears to be to use a mono-spaced font and space out the columns with multiple spaces, which is not very satisfactory. 57 Some users create their tables in Microsoft Excel and then paste a selected region of the Excel table into AutoCAD as an OLE linked object. That has its problems. If you use a black background, as most AutoCAD users seem to do persist with, despite my advice, then the Excel table with its white background looks a bit odd. But, more seriously, Microsoft?s OLE mechanism in Windows is far from reliable, has severe limitations on the amount of linked data, and is a serious resource hog. I have always recommended AutoCAD users to avoid OLE if possible, and it usually is. 58 I only found out recently from a long-time user of AutoCAD that it is possible to import Excel table data quite satisfactorily as AutoCAD text. To prove this and explain the options, I made a test table in Excel by cutting some text out of part of the ACAD.PGP file and editing it with tabs so that it would paste into Excel in rows and columns. The illustration here shows three ways at pasting it into AutoCAD. After selecting the cell range in Excel and copying it to the clipboard by Ctrl-C, I opened AutoCAD and used the Edit menu, Paste Special. The resulting dialog box, shown here, presents several options of the form in which to paste the clipboard data. 59 Method 1 used the ?Paste as text? option. The result is a single ?Multiline Text? object, with each row of Excel cells as one text line with hard line-end, but with all the column spacing lost. That?s not much use as a text table. Also, even though pasting Word text into AutoCAD?s Mtext dialog-editor preserves the fonts and formatting nicely, this operation ignored the Excel text format and inserted it as the current AutoCAD Style, which in my test used the awful-looking TXT.SHX font that is still AutoCAD?s default for its Standard Style. 60 Method 2 used the ?Paste as Picture (Metafile)? option. This gives quite a good result, more so if you use a white background in AutoCAD, but you cannot edit it in any way at all. If the table neded altering you?d ave to alter it in Excel, delete the present AutoCAD insertion and paste the picture again. 61 Method 3 is the most satisfactory, I think. This used the option that surprised me: ?Paste as \%PRODUCT entities?. I cannot find any reference to any such type of entity. It inserts the cells each as a separate ?Single-line Text? object, and automatically organises the insertion points of the text objects vertically and horizontally to form a sensibly arranged table. It also, and rather surprisingly, creates new Text Styles to reproduce the format of the Excel text! In my test, which used Excel?s default Arial font and size, but with the header row in bold, the pasted text objects used new Styles called ?WMF-Arial0? (for the top row in bold) and ?WMF-Arial1? (for the other cells). 62 I also tried it with one of the cells set up in Excel with wrapped multi-line text. This pasted into AutoCAD with each wrapped line as a separate single-line text object. It spaced the adjoining cells appropriately even though they had only single-line text in them. 63 This method allows for some minor text editing in AutoCAD, since the text is ordinary text. If the editing widened a cell of text so that it overlapped, you?d have to manually move all the other cells around to make room and keep the tabular format. For any serious alterations, it would be better to delete all the pasted text objects, edit the Excel data, and redo the copy-paste operation. 64 So, this ?Paste as \%PRODUCT Entities? facility provides a quite useable text table mechanism. The odd thing is that it seems to be a bit of a secret. 65 This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project 66 to make the world's books discoverable online. 67 It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject 68 to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books 69 are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover. 70 Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the 71 publisher to a library and finally to you. 72 Usage guidelines 73 Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the 74 public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to 75 prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. 76 We also ask that you: 77 + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for 78 personal, non-commercial purposes. 79 + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine 80 translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the 81 use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. 82 + Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find 83 additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. 84 + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just 85 because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other 86 countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of 87 any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner 88 anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. 89 About Google Book Search 90 Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers 91 discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web 92 I have long bemoaned the absence of any support for tabulated text in AutoCAD, and so have many other people. It is a common need to place tables of textual information on drawings. The only obvious method appears to be to use a mono-spaced font and space out the columns with multiple spaces, which is not very satisfactory. 93 Some users create their tables in Microsoft Excel and then paste a selected region of the Excel table into AutoCAD as an OLE linked object. That has its problems. If you use a black background, as most AutoCAD users seem to do persist with, despite my advice, then the Excel table with its white background looks a bit odd. But, more seriously, Microsoft?s OLE mechanism in Windows is far from reliable, has severe limitations on the amount of linked data, and is a serious resource hog. I have always recommended AutoCAD users to avoid OLE if possible, and it usually is. 94 I only found out recently from a long-time user of AutoCAD that it is possible to import Excel table data quite satisfactorily as AutoCAD text. To prove this and explain the options, I made a test table in Excel by cutting some text out of part of the ACAD.PGP file and editing it with tabs so that it would paste into Excel in rows and columns. The illustration here shows three ways at pasting it into AutoCAD. After selecting the cell range in Excel and copying it to the clipboard by Ctrl-C, I opened AutoCAD and used the Edit menu, Paste Special. The resulting dialog box, shown here, presents several options of the form in which to paste the clipboard data. 95 Method 1 used the ?Paste as text? option. The result is a single ?Multiline Text? object, with each row of Excel cells as one text line with hard line-end, but with all the column spacing lost. That?s not much use as a text table. Also, even though pasting Word text into AutoCAD?s Mtext dialog-editor preserves the fonts and formatting nicely, this operation ignored the Excel text format and inserted it as the current AutoCAD Style, which in my test used the awful-looking TXT.SHX font that is still AutoCAD?s default for its Standard Style. 96 Method 2 used the ?Paste as Picture (Metafile)? option. This gives quite a good result, more so if you use a white background in AutoCAD, but you cannot edit it in any way at all. If the table neded altering you?d ave to alter it in Excel, delete the present AutoCAD insertion and paste the picture again. 97 Method 3 is the most satisfactory, I think. This used the option that surprised me: ?Paste as \%PRODUCT entities?. I cannot find any reference to any such type of entity. It inserts the cells each as a separate ?Single-line Text? object, and automatically organises the insertion points of the text objects vertically and horizontally to form a sensibly arranged table. It also, and rather surprisingly, creates new Text Styles to reproduce the format of the Excel text! In my test, which used Excel?s default Arial font and size, but with the header row in bold, the pasted text objects used new Styles called ?WMF-Arial0? (for the top row in bold) and ?WMF-Arial1? (for the other cells). 98 I also tried it with one of the cells set up in Excel with wrapped multi-line text. This pasted into AutoCAD with each wrapped line as a separate single-line text object. It spaced the adjoining cells appropriately even though they had only single-line text in them. 99 This method allows for some minor text editing in AutoCAD, since the text is ordinary text. If the editing widened a cell of text so that it overlapped, you?d have to manually move all the other cells around to make room and keep the tabular format. For any serious alterations, it would be better to delete all the pasted text objects, edit the Excel data, and redo the copy-paste operation. 100 So, this ?Paste as \%PRODUCT Entities? facility provides a quite useable text table mechanism. The odd thing is that it seems to be a bit of a secret. 101 This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project 102 to make the world's books discoverable online. 103 It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject 104 to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books 105 are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover. 106 Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the 107 publisher to a library and finally to you. 108 Usage guidelines 109 Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the 110 public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to 111 prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. 112 We also ask that you: 113 + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for 114 personal, non-commercial purposes. 115 + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine 116 translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the 117 use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. 118 + Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find 119 additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. 120 + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just 121 because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other 122 countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of 123 any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner 124 anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. 125 About Google Book Search 126 Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers 127 discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web 128 I have long bemoaned the absence of any support for tabulated text in AutoCAD, and so have many other people. It is a common need to place tables of textual information on drawings. The only obvious method appears to be to use a mono-spaced font and space out the columns with multiple spaces, which is not very satisfactory. 129 Some users create their tables in Microsoft Excel and then paste a selected region of the Excel table into AutoCAD as an OLE linked object. That has its problems. If you use a black background, as most AutoCAD users seem to do persist with, despite my advice, then the Excel table with its white background looks a bit odd. But, more seriously, Microsoft?s OLE mechanism in Windows is far from reliable, has severe limitations on the amount of linked data, and is a serious resource hog. I have always recommended AutoCAD users to avoid OLE if possible, and it usually is. 130 I only found out recently from a long-time user of AutoCAD that it is possible to import Excel table data quite satisfactorily as AutoCAD text. To prove this and explain the options, I made a test table in Excel by cutting some text out of part of the ACAD.PGP file and editing it with tabs so that it would paste into Excel in rows and columns. The illustration here shows three ways at pasting it into AutoCAD. After selecting the cell range in Excel and copying it to the clipboard by Ctrl-C, I opened AutoCAD and used the Edit menu, Paste Special. The resulting dialog box, shown here, presents several options of the form in which to paste the clipboard data. 131 Method 1 used the ?Paste as text? option. The result is a single ?Multiline Text? object, with each row of Excel cells as one text line with hard line-end, but with all the column spacing lost. That?s not much use as a text table. Also, even though pasting Word text into AutoCAD?s Mtext dialog-editor preserves the fonts and formatting nicely, this operation ignored the Excel text format and inserted it as the current AutoCAD Style, which in my test used the awful-looking TXT.SHX font that is still AutoCAD?s default for its Standard Style. 132 Method 2 used the ?Paste as Picture (Metafile)? option. This gives quite a good result, more so if you use a white background in AutoCAD, but you cannot edit it in any way at all. If the table neded altering you?d ave to alter it in Excel, delete the present AutoCAD insertion and paste the picture again. 133 Method 3 is the most satisfactory, I think. This used the option that surprised me: ?Paste as \%PRODUCT entities?. I cannot find any reference to any such type of entity. It inserts the cells each as a separate ?Single-line Text? object, and automatically organises the insertion points of the text objects vertically and horizontally to form a sensibly arranged table. It also, and rather surprisingly, creates new Text Styles to reproduce the format of the Excel text! In my test, which used Excel?s default Arial font and size, but with the header row in bold, the pasted text objects used new Styles called ?WMF-Arial0? (for the top row in bold) and ?WMF-Arial1? (for the other cells). 134 I also tried it with one of the cells set up in Excel with wrapped multi-line text. This pasted into AutoCAD with each wrapped line as a separate single-line text object. It spaced the adjoining cells appropriately even though they had only single-line text in them. 135 This method allows for some minor text editing in AutoCAD, since the text is ordinary text. If the editing widened a cell of text so that it overlapped, you?d have to manually move all the other cells around to make room and keep the tabular format. For any serious alterations, it would be better to delete all the pasted text objects, edit the Excel data, and redo the copy-paste operation. 136 So, this ?Paste as \%PRODUCT Entities? facility provides a quite useable text table mechanism. The odd thing is that it seems to be a bit of a secret. 137 This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project 138 to make the world's books discoverable online. 139 It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject 140 to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books 141 are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover. 142 Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the 143 publisher to a library and finally to you. 144 Usage guidelines 145 Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the 146 public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to 147 prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. 148 We also ask that you: 149 + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for 150 personal, non-commercial purposes. 151 + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine 152 translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the 153 use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. 154 + Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find 155 additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. 156 + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just 157 because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other 158 countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of 159 any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner 160 anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. 161 About Google Book Search 162 Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers 163 discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web 164 I have long bemoaned the absence of any support for tabulated text in AutoCAD, and so have many other people. It is a common need to place tables of textual information on drawings. The only obvious method appears to be to use a mono-spaced font and space out the columns with multiple spaces, which is not very satisfactory. 165 Some users create their tables in Microsoft Excel and then paste a selected region of the Excel table into AutoCAD as an OLE linked object. That has its problems. If you use a black background, as most AutoCAD users seem to do persist with, despite my advice, then the Excel table with its white background looks a bit odd. But, more seriously, Microsoft?s OLE mechanism in Windows is far from reliable, has severe limitations on the amount of linked data, and is a serious resource hog. I have always recommended AutoCAD users to avoid OLE if possible, and it usually is. 166 I only found out recently from a long-time user of AutoCAD that it is possible to import Excel table data quite satisfactorily as AutoCAD text. To prove this and explain the options, I made a test table in Excel by cutting some text out of part of the ACAD.PGP file and editing it with tabs so that it would paste into Excel in rows and columns. The illustration here shows three ways at pasting it into AutoCAD. After selecting the cell range in Excel and copying it to the clipboard by Ctrl-C, I opened AutoCAD and used the Edit menu, Paste Special. The resulting dialog box, shown here, presents several options of the form in which to paste the clipboard data. 167 Method 1 used the ?Paste as text? option. The result is a single ?Multiline Text? object, with each row of Excel cells as one text line with hard line-end, but with all the column spacing lost. That?s not much use as a text table. Also, even though pasting Word text into AutoCAD?s Mtext dialog-editor preserves the fonts and formatting nicely, this operation ignored the Excel text format and inserted it as the current AutoCAD Style, which in my test used the awful-looking TXT.SHX font that is still AutoCAD?s default for its Standard Style. 168 Method 2 used the ?Paste as Picture (Metafile)? option. This gives quite a good result, more so if you use a white background in AutoCAD, but you cannot edit it in any way at all. If the table neded altering you?d ave to alter it in Excel, delete the present AutoCAD insertion and paste the picture again. 169 Method 3 is the most satisfactory, I think. This used the option that surprised me: ?Paste as \%PRODUCT entities?. I cannot find any reference to any such type of entity. It inserts the cells each as a separate ?Single-line Text? object, and automatically organises the insertion points of the text objects vertically and horizontally to form a sensibly arranged table. It also, and rather surprisingly, creates new Text Styles to reproduce the format of the Excel text! In my test, which used Excel?s default Arial font and size, but with the header row in bold, the pasted text objects used new Styles called ?WMF-Arial0? (for the top row in bold) and ?WMF-Arial1? (for the other cells). 170 I also tried it with one of the cells set up in Excel with wrapped multi-line text. This pasted into AutoCAD with each wrapped line as a separate single-line text object. It spaced the adjoining cells appropriately even though they had only single-line text in them. 171 This method allows for some minor text editing in AutoCAD, since the text is ordinary text. If the editing widened a cell of text so that it overlapped, you?d have to manually move all the other cells around to make room and keep the tabular format. For any serious alterations, it would be better to delete all the pasted text objects, edit the Excel data, and redo the copy-paste operation. 172 So, this ?Paste as \%PRODUCT Entities? facility provides a quite useable text table mechanism. The odd thing is that it seems to be a bit of a secret. 173 This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project 174 to make the world's books discoverable online. 175 It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject 176 to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books 177 are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover. 178 Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the 179 publisher to a library and finally to you. 180 Usage guidelines 181 Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the 182 public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to 183 prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. 184 We also ask that you: 185 + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for 186 personal, non-commercial purposes. 187 + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine 188 translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the 189 use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. 190 + Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find 191 additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. 192 + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just 193 because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other 194 countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of 195 any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner 196 anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. 197 About Google Book Search 198 Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers 199 discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web 200 I have long bemoaned the absence of any support for tabulated text in AutoCAD, and so have many other people. It is a common need to place tables of textual information on drawings. The only obvious method appears to be to use a mono-spaced font and space out the columns with multiple spaces, which is not very satisfactory. 201 Some users create their tables in Microsoft Excel and then paste a selected region of the Excel table into AutoCAD as an OLE linked object. That has its problems. If you use a black background, as most AutoCAD users seem to do persist with, despite my advice, then the Excel table with its white background looks a bit odd. But, more seriously, Microsoft?s OLE mechanism in Windows is far from reliable, has severe limitations on the amount of linked data, and is a serious resource hog. I have always recommended AutoCAD users to avoid OLE if possible, and it usually is. 202 I only found out recently from a long-time user of AutoCAD that it is possible to import Excel table data quite satisfactorily as AutoCAD text. To prove this and explain the options, I made a test table in Excel by cutting some text out of part of the ACAD.PGP file and editing it with tabs so that it would paste into Excel in rows and columns. The illustration here shows three ways at pasting it into AutoCAD. After selecting the cell range in Excel and copying it to the clipboard by Ctrl-C, I opened AutoCAD and used the Edit menu, Paste Special. The resulting dialog box, shown here, presents several options of the form in which to paste the clipboard data. 203 Method 1 used the ?Paste as text? option. The result is a single ?Multiline Text? object, with each row of Excel cells as one text line with hard line-end, but with all the column spacing lost. That?s not much use as a text table. Also, even though pasting Word text into AutoCAD?s Mtext dialog-editor preserves the fonts and formatting nicely, this operation ignored the Excel text format and inserted it as the current AutoCAD Style, which in my test used the awful-looking TXT.SHX font that is still AutoCAD?s default for its Standard Style. 204 Method 2 used the ?Paste as Picture (Metafile)? option. This gives quite a good result, more so if you use a white background in AutoCAD, but you cannot edit it in any way at all. 205 Method 3 is the most satisfactory, I think. This used the option that surprised me: ?Paste as \%PRODUCT entities?. I cannot find any reference to any such type of entity. It inserts the cells each as a separate ?Single-line Text? object, and automatically organises the insertion points of the text objects vertically and horizontally to form a sensibly arranged table. It also, and rather surprisingly, creates new Text Styles to reproduce the format of the Excel text! In my test, which used Excel?s default Arial font and size, but with the header row in bold. 206 } 207 208 \end{document}