Jeff, thanks for your reply.
Well, you got me there, i'm the same viktor, sorry i didn't get enough details on the adesk forum.
My only excuse is that i've been off and on with this little project. See, it's really not my job to do this, I'm a designer, not a programmer. But it seems that our Drafter Sr. is not about to do anything like this.
Like I said before, I set them up with a automatic process already, it is just very messy. And I do understand that Autocad should be running, that's not my concern. I just don't want it to open each drawing load everything, every xref and every image and then extract the attribute. The way that example that you wrote in the LISP thread worked was awesome! It's like 100 times faster!
But my problem is that half the people that will be using it will be very umm computer illiterate, they managed to screw up what i thought was hard to mess up. Soooo, i really want them to just open excel file, click a button, get the files, and have the autocad do the rest.
I do remember that sample, and it is also on my work's laptop, so I will check it out again, but there are a number of ways how to import the attributes back into the excel, isn't there?
I'm dealing with 50-300 drawings at a time and 5 attributes per drawing, so i'm not sure what would be the best way.
Thanks for your patience Jeff!
Viktor.