muck Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 I made a excel spread sheet and linked it to an AutoCAD Light Table. This is what I get: Why is my data being blinked out and how do I fix this? Thank you, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Hard to say for sure without the files. What is an AutoCAD Lite Table? Could be graphics card or driver related. What are your computer specifications? What OS are you using? What version of Excel? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muck Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share Posted January 25, 2022 I use the Autocad tables command in AutoCAD 2014 Lt to create a table. I select insert options from a data link to my select my Excel file and make my cell range. Thank you, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Sorry, having never used LT, I am ill equipped to help on this one. Your profile says you are using AutoCAD 2019, might you want to change that to AutoCAD 2014 LT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 13 hours ago, muck said: I use the Autocad tables command in AutoCAD 2014 Lt to create a table. I select insert options from a data link to my select my Excel file and make my cell range. Thank you, And that answered only one of my questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muck Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share Posted January 26, 2022 Dadgad, Right now , Unfortunately, I am stuck with AutoCAD LT 2014 I don't have a any good opinion of AutoCAD LT 2014 because you can't program or change it. I would not recommend AutoCAD 2014. I consider AutoCAD Lt to be a very poor program. That is just my opinion. Because of cost my employer will not upgrade. Muck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 (edited) Look at alternatives like Bricscad and Drafsight, both have lisp as well. Also 2022 versions not 2014. Edited January 27, 2022 by BIGAL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muck Posted January 27, 2022 Author Share Posted January 27, 2022 (edited) See next post. Edited January 27, 2022 by muck Extra message by accident. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muck Posted January 27, 2022 Author Share Posted January 27, 2022 Bigal, I don't think I can convince them to spend the $199/yr or $615/yr as long as they have this 2014 AutoCAD LT that they don't have to spend anything to keep. So there is no point putting trail versions on my work computer and slow it down. I might try them at home when I get the time. Overall I prefer DOS AutoCAD 12 over this 2014 AutoCAD LT I have now. Even with DOS AutoCAD 12 you could run lisp. Thank you, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 What does all of this have to do with the original problem? Is it resolved now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muck Posted January 28, 2022 Author Share Posted January 28, 2022 SLW210, Looks like we got side tracked. I still have not figured out why a white appears in my AutoCAD table when it is linked to an excel file. I don't know if it is coming form the excel file or it is in the AutoCAD table. Thank you, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 On 1/25/2022 at 1:20 PM, SLW210 said: Hard to say for sure without the files. What is an AutoCAD Lite Table? Could be graphics card or driver related. What are your computer specifications? What OS are you using? What version of Excel? You still need to answer my questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muck Posted January 31, 2022 Author Share Posted January 31, 2022 I think formatting border lines in excel might be creating this problem. I went back and exported my date to Notepad then put it on sheet 2. I created a link in AutoCAD. This time I did not format the excel borders. The linked AutoCAD table was good. That may be the problem. Thank you, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muck Posted February 8, 2022 Author Share Posted February 8, 2022 I cut/paste and replaced data in the excel sheet from MS word. The reason I did that I was to make text in all CAP's I think that process created my blank out problem. The work around was to place data into notepad before putting it bank into excel. I think that that fixed the problem. Thank you, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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