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This opens the <link href="text/scalc/01/04090000.xhp">External Data</link> dialog.</paragraph> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 57*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149958" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Enter the URL of the HTML document or the name of the spreadsheet. Press Enter when finished. Click the <emph>...</emph> button to open a file selection dialog.<comment>only after Enter the URL will be requested from the net.</comment></paragraph> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 60*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149400" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">In the large list box of the dialog, select the named ranges or tables you want to insert.</paragraph> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 63*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3155064" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">You can also specify that the ranges or tables are updated every n seconds.</paragraph> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 65cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 66*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155443" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">The import filter can create names for cell ranges on the fly. As much formatting as possible is retained, while the filter intentionally does not load any images.</paragraph> 67*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149021" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Inserting by Navigator</paragraph> 68cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered"> 69cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 70*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153965" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Open two documents: the $[officename] Calc spreadsheet in which the external data is to be inserted (target document) and the document from which the external data derives (source document).</paragraph> 71cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 72cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 73*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150205" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">In the target document open the Navigator.</paragraph> 74cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 75cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 76*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152990" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">In the lower combo box of the Navigator select the source document. The Navigator now shows the range names and database ranges or the tables contained in the source document.</paragraph> 77cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 78cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 79*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148842" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">In the Navigator select the <emph>Insert as link</emph> drag mode 80cdf0e10cSrcweir<image id="img_id3152985" src="sw/imglst/sc20238.png" width="0.222inch" height="0.222inch"><alt id="alt_id3152985" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 81cdf0e10cSrcweir</image>.</paragraph> 82cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 83cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 84*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3157978" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Drag the desired external data from the Navigator into the target document.</paragraph> 85cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 86cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 87*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3144768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">If you have loaded an HTML document with the <emph>Web Page Query</emph> filter as the source document, you will find the tables in the Navigator, named continuously from "HTML_table1" onwards, and also two range names that have been created:</paragraph> 88cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="unordered"> 89cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 90*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3152873" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><item type="literal">HTML_all</item> - designates the entire document</paragraph> 91cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 92cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 93*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149897" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><item type="literal">HTML_tables</item> - designates all HTML tables in the document</paragraph> 94cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 95cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 96*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149126" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Editing the external data</paragraph> 97cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="unordered"> 98cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 99*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3159228" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Open <emph>Edit - Links</emph>. Here you can edit the link to the external data.</paragraph> 100cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 101cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 102cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 103*df13e7c3Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154650" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><link href="text/scalc/01/04090000.xhp" name="External data dialog">External data dialog</link></paragraph> 104cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/scalc/guide/cellreferences_url.xhp#cellreferences_url"/> 105cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 106cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 107cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 108
