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alanjt

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Excel OLE - Access data in linked OLE without source file
« on: August 20, 2020, 09:58:39 AM »
I have a drawing with an excel OLE spreadsheet. I would like to access the data, but it will not open.
The OLE is linked instead of embedded and I do not have the source spreadsheet.

Is there any way to extract the data or convert the OLE to embedded?
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Re: Excel OLE - Access data in linked OLE without source file
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2020, 03:02:47 PM »
maybe print to PDF, the copy the text from the PDF??
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Re: Excel OLE - Access data in linked OLE without source file
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2020, 02:25:38 PM »
maybe print to PDF, the copy the text from the PDF??
Wasn't the most elegant method, but I was able to OCR the PDF and copy the text.
Thanks for the suggestion.

Still would be nice if there was a way to convert and OLE to be embedded, but I get why it wouldn't/shouldn't be possible.
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