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  • Get Text from datasheet

    Posted by Wilhelm Hagberg on August 21, 2007 at 9:15 pm

    Hi,

    Im making a simple animation with Source text. In each keyframe, I want a certain text to appear. I would like to take those texts from an Ms Excel Datasheet. Does anyone know how
    to achieve this…
    Best, WTK

    Kevin Camp replied 18 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Colin Braley

    August 22, 2007 at 2:09 am

    You can’t do this with expressions, you need to use scripting. Try searching the forums at aenhancers.com, maybe you will find something you can modify and use.
    ~Colin

    ~Colin

    http://www.colinbraley.com

  • Kevin Camp

    August 22, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    dan ebberts also has a script on his site for creating text layers for file. i believe it will create a new text layer for evry line of text in a text file… you would need to export your spreadsheet to a text file, and hopefully be able to set it to export each cell as a new line. or modify the script to look for tabs, rather than new lines.

    Kevin Camp
    Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

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