I've never liked the idea of duplicate data sources and the inevitability of them becoming out of sync, never mind the tedium of double entry. Excel functions can be used to link between worksheets to allow one list of values to used in different places…

Pick Lists are useful when working with Items Types, they save repetitive input and aid data consistency. When creating pick lists of any length or when you have existing lists in some text format, it is far quicker to use Excel to create sources from…

We frequently suggest that people watch the command prompts in the status bar when learning new MicroStation based applications or techniques: You can see these prompts at your cursor during any graphic operation by adding the following configuration…