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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Link to External Data</title>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153192" role="paragraph"><ahelp hid="modules/scalc/ui/externaldata/browse" visibility="hidden">Open a file dialog to locate the file containing the data you want to insert.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3145785" role="heading" level="1"><link href="text/scalc/01/04090000.xhp" name="External Data">Link to External Data</link></paragraph>
         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149262" role="paragraph"><ahelp hid=".uno:InsertExternalDataSourc">Inserts data from an HTML, Calc, CSV or Excel file into the current sheet as a link. The data must be located within a named range.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145366" role="paragraph"><ahelp hid="modules/scalc/ui/externaldata/url">Enter the URL or the file name that contains the data that you want to insert, and then press Enter.</ahelp> Alternatively, click <emph>Browse</emph> button to select the file name from a file dialog that opens. Only then will the URL be requested from the network or file system.</paragraph>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id621519313666202" role="note"><link href="text/shared/00/00000208.xhp" name="linkname">A dialog for CSV data import</link> appears when linking to external CSV file.</paragraph>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147397" role="paragraph"><ahelp hid="modules/scalc/ui/externaldata/ranges">Select the table or the data range that you want to insert.</ahelp> If the selected Calc or Excel document contains no named range, spreadsheet data cannot be inserted and <emph>OK</emph> button will remain inactive </paragraph>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154017" role="paragraph"><ahelp hid="modules/scalc/ui/externaldata/delay">Enter the number of seconds to wait before the external data are reloaded into the current document.</ahelp></paragraph>
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