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Import the revised spreadsheet

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Import the revised spreadsheet

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- [Instructor] In the previous video I got you to open up Excel and open up that Excel spreadsheet that we'd exported out from our PLC Drawing.dwg file in AutoCAD Electrical. So we're back now in our project Project, and we've got the PLC Drawing open, as you can see there. And, basically, what we're going to do now is we're going to import the component information that we saved in the Excel spreadsheet in the last video back into this particular drawing. So make sure you're in your PLC Drawing.dwg. Okay, and I'm now going to go up to the Import panel here, in the Import/Export Data tab on the ribbon. And you can see that I've got import From Spreadsheet. We're not usin' the PLC Input/Output Utility this time. We're not actually doing PLCs. We're just doing component data. So, From Spreadsheet, it should remember where you're saving your spreadsheets to. So it should be your Project folder there. If it isn't, go and locate it and find your PLC Drawing.XLS file there. There it is…

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