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This opens the <link href="text/scalc/01/04090000.xhp">External Data</link> dialog.</paragraph> 64*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 65*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 66*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 67*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 68*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 69*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 70*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 71*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 72*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 73*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 74*cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 75*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 76*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149021" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="12">Inserting by Navigator</paragraph> 77*cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered"> 78*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 79*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 80*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 81*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 82*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150205" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">In the target document open the Navigator.</paragraph> 83*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 84*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 85*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 86*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 87*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 88*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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 89*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 90*cdf0e10cSrcweir </image>.</paragraph> 91*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 92*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 93*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 94*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 95*cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 96*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 97*cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="unordered"> 98*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 99*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3152873" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24"> 100*cdf0e10cSrcweir<item type="literal">HTML_all</item> - designates the entire document</paragraph> 101*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 102*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 103*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149897" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25"> 104*cdf0e10cSrcweir<item type="literal">HTML_tables</item> - designates all HTML tables in the document</paragraph> 105*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 106*cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 107*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149126" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="26">Editing the external data</paragraph> 108*cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="unordered"> 109*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 110*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 111*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 112*cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 113*cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 114*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 115*cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/scalc/guide/cellreferences_url.xhp#cellreferences_url"/> 116*cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 117*cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 118*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 119
