Excel Data Link Issue

Excel Data Link Issue

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Excel Data Link Issue

Anonymous
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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,

 

 

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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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 -

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Anonymous
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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??

 

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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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.

Login as admin, turn off antovirus software and re-run the MS-Office installation.

 

Good luck, - alfred -

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www.ish-solutions.at ... blog.ish-solutions.at ... LinkedIn ... CDay 2026
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