topic Re: Excel Data Link Issue in AutoCAD Forum

Excel Data Link Issue

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:19:24 GMT

I'm using Autocad 2014 and Microsoft office 2010 . I was able to insert the excel data link in the Autocad, but recently there is a problem with that and I see that it says: "The data link cannot be created because excel cannot be found "(attached message) .

I re-installed both Office and Autocad and both of them are 64 bit now .I don't know what else I can do to fix this problem.

Any help wold be appreciated .

Regards,

Re: Excel Data Link Issue

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:54:20 GMT

Hi,

welcome @Anonymous.autodesk.com!

Try to start MS-Word, insert an Excel object in the same way and then double click this table in Word ... do you get then Excel started or do you get the same error-message?

Another trial with AutoCAD: what happens if you start Excel before you try to modify the linked table in AutoCAD?

- alfred -

Re: Excel Data Link Issue

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:01:22 GMT

Hi Alfred,

When I try to insert an excel chart in the word I have almost same error that excel is not installed !!!! but why??

Re: Excel Data Link Issue

Alfred.NESWADBA — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:05:20 GMT

Hi,

>> When I try to insert an excel chart in the word I have almost same error that excel is not installed !!!! but why??

That shows that this is not an issue with AutoCAD, something went wrong with your MS-Office installation. Or you have installed a cleaning tool going through your registry and cleaned to much.

If you have such a tool installed, remove it.

Good luck, - alfred -