Displays a list of established links to an Excel spreadsheet.

Displays the Data Link Manager, where you can specify a link to a Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet.

Displays a list of extracted property columns.

Displays a list of column names from the linked data in the Excel spreadsheet.

Compares the data in the specified drawing data key column and the external data key
column. If the data is unique across all rows in the external data key columns, and
there is at least one data match between the drawing data and in data in the spreadsheet,
a message displays the check key is successful. If the check key is unsuccessful,
a warning message is displayed.

Provides two options for the Check Match function: Case Sensitive and Ignore Prefix
and Suffix White Space.

When Case Sensitive is selected, the case of the data is checked.

Removes blank spaces in front of and after each data source before the check matching
process proceeds. When this option is clear, white spaces are evaluated.

Displays Understand Data Linking and Matching topic in the User’s VCade.

Displays the column names in the order in which they appear in the spreadsheet. Selected
columns are linked to the drawing data through data matching.

Uses the top row of data in the data link as the column name for the linked data.
Otherwise, column names are labeled “Column 1, Column 2â€‌ and so on.