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Jim Metcalf

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I am creating a visio diagram of a database model. &nbsp; There is a shape called entity. &nbsp;The entity has the ability to take a lot of attributes. &nbsp;I don't want to type all these in manually. &nbsp;There are a ton of columns in these tables. &nbsp; is there a way to use excel to populate the shape.. entity in visio. &nbsp;I am using visio 2013 pro
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I am creating a visio diagram of a database model.   There is a shape called entity.  The entity has the ability to take a lot of attributes.  I don't want to type all these in manually.  There are a ton of columns in these tables.   is there a way to use excel to populate the shape.. entity in visio.  I am using visio 2013 pro

populate entity shape with attributes from excel

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