The Get External Data command in Excel?

G

Guest

I have an Excel 2002 homework assignment that tells me to use Get External
Data to import a Word file. I'm unable to find that command through the Data
menu, or any other for that matter. I did find the Get External Data toolbar
however it doesn't have the specific command anywhere.

Any help? Please respond though the discussion group.

Cheryl
 
R

Rob Bovey

Hi Cheryl,

In Excel 2002 this menu is called the Import External Data menu and it's
located under the main Data menu. I don't know about importing data from
Word this way, though. Can't say I've ever tried that before.

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G

Guest

Hi back, Rob,

Thanks so much for helping out. I had a feeling that this was a misprint in
the assignment.

I did have success through the Import External Data command once today, but
a lot of the info was unreadable. The only part that worked was what the
program was able to interpret as a list, I guess. Think I'll stick to
drag-and-drop for Word-to-Excel imports.
 

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