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This opens the <link href="text/scalc/01/04090000.xhp">External Data</link> dialog.</paragraph> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149958" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">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> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149400" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">In the large list box of the dialog, select the named ranges or tables you want to insert.</paragraph> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3155064" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">You can also specify that the ranges or tables are updated every n seconds.</paragraph> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 65cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155443" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="30">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> 66cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149021" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="12">Inserting by Navigator</paragraph> 67cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered"> 68cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 69cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153965" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">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> 70cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 71cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 72cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150205" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">In the target document open the Navigator.</paragraph> 73cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 74cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 75cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152990" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">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> 76cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 77cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 78cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148842" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">In the Navigator select the <emph>Insert as link</emph> drag mode 79cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 80f3989ab4Smseidel</image>.</paragraph> 81cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 82cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 83cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3157978" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">Drag the desired external data from the Navigator into the target document.</paragraph> 84cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 85cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 86cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3144768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">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> 87cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="unordered"> 88cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 89cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3152873" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24"> 90cdf0e10cSrcweir<item type="literal">HTML_all</item> - designates the entire document</paragraph> 91cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 92cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 93cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149897" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25"> 94cdf0e10cSrcweir<item type="literal">HTML_tables</item> - designates all HTML tables in the document</paragraph> 95cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 96cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 97cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149126" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="26">Editing the external data</paragraph> 98cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="unordered"> 99cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 100cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3159228" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">Open <emph>Edit - Links</emph>. Here you can edit the link to the external data.</paragraph> 101cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 102cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 103cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 104cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154650" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28"><link href="text/scalc/01/04090000.xhp" name="External data dialog">External data dialog</link></paragraph> 105cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/scalc/guide/cellreferences_url.xhp#cellreferences_url"/> 106cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 107cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 108cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 109
