Excel Database and AutCAD

[tony barretto]

also i have tried a number of things, i possible can u pls send me a video of the full procedure tried by u so as to get my excel spreadsheet in edit mode in autocad.
i would be grateful if u can do that for me thanks.

[Murph_map]

I no longer use MS Office on this workstation so there is no way I can make a video of it. Try a search on YouTube there may be some there.

[tony barretto]

i have gone thru the net and it say that it is not possible to get excel in edit mode using the odbc driver as it the shot coming of the odbc driver for excel database,

You will not be able to make changes in the table; the ODBC driver for Excel doesn't support it.

This subject is usually discussed in the autocad.connectivity newsgroup.
I should clarify "You will not be able to make changes in the table;
the ODBC driver for Excel doesn't support it.". The Excel driver does
not support making changes row-by-row in a displayed table.

do u agree with this or it is possible to edit excel table in dbconnect view

[Murph_map]

i have gone thru the net and it say that it is not possible to get excel in edit mode using the odbc driver as it the shot coming of the odbc driver for excel database,

You will not be able to make changes in the table; the ODBC driver for Excel doesn't support it.

do u agree with this or it is possible to edit excel table in dbconnect view

I would agree with the current versions of software, years ago with older versions of Autocad, MS Office and Windows it worked. Excel is not a DataBase so do not expect it to work as a database. The last time I had it working was with AutoCAD 2008 with Office 97 on an Windows 97 workstation, and then it was limited to the number of rows in the table.

[tony barretto]

thanks for ur reply pls do keep in touch fo any updates on this topic