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Old December 19th, 2002, 06:25 AM
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I use Excel and Word to mailmerge into se4 data files.
I'm wondering how you go about getting the data from Excel into the data source for the mail merger? I've got a whole bunch of components designed in Excel and it would be great to be able to keep their relationships automatically adjusted whenever I make a change to the base component.
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Old December 19th, 2002, 05:47 PM
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OK, here's the spreadsheet... currently I only have a worksheet for the weapon mounts, but if you change the column headings and the name of the file being read in the macro then you can read any SE4 data file...

www.geocities.com/edwardkolis/se4/SE4ModderWorkbook.zip (11 KB)

Don't forget to set cell A1 in the "Path" worksheet to the path of your data files, otherwise you'll probably get bunches of errors
I tried to retreve the spreadsheet but I get
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This is an example of using Excel and Word

http://se4kdy.cyberwars.com/files/sci-fi-cross/sci-fi_x-over_xls'.zip
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Default Re: Modding tools: Access vs. Excel

bump!

I'm going to try out Andre's system, but I'd love to use the other also. Is Jan 8th still on the go?
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Hm, Jan 8th. I think on a PERT or GANT chart it is called, "Slippage". Lets see what I can pull off this weekend.
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OK, here's the spreadsheet... currently I only have a worksheet for the weapon mounts, but if you change the column headings and the name of the file being read in the macro then you can read any SE4 data file...

www.geocities.com/edwardkolis/se4/SE4ModderWorkbook.zip (11 KB)

Don't forget to set cell A1 in the "Path" worksheet to the path of your data files, otherwise you'll probably get bunches of errors
I tried to retreve the spreadsheet but I get
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Sorry, the page you requested was not found.

Would you please repost this spreedsheet.
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Old January 4th, 2003, 12:43 AM
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Oh, all right... I thought I did but I'll try again, let's see if Spaceports supports remote linking...

http://galileo.spaceports.com/~ekoli...erWorkbook.zip
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