Excel

[jmagarolas962356]

I'm running AutoCAD 2007 w/SP2. When I copy paste and excel file into the model space of a drawings, the grips disappear. You can no longer select the spread sheet or do anything with it?

[charlie.bauer341340]

I'm running AutoCAD 2007 w/SP2. When I copy paste and excel file into the model space of a drawings, the grips disappear. You can no longer select the spread sheet or do anything with it?

Do you have your frames turned on?

[Capt. Computer Crasher]

I'm running AutoCAD 2007 w/SP2. When I copy paste and excel file into the model space of a drawings, the grips disappear. You can no longer select the spread sheet or do anything with it?

Did you paste as an AutoCAD entity?

[michael.12445]

I have seen this happen, even though frames are turned on. I remember looking this up on autodesk.com, and their description was that the OLE object was "broken," and had to be deleted and re-attached. (They gave a method for deleting it without being able to select it, but I don't remember what it was.)

Generally speaking, we try to avoid Excel charts and Word documents in our DWG files, because the OLE mechanism as implemented in AutoCAD is a pile of junk.

Michael Evans
Togawa Smith Martin Residential, Inc.