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      <p class="para_topic">For basic procedures on how to use the spreadsheet program, see the examples and usage notes.</p>
      <div class="title_division">CAST</div>
      <p class="para_division">For further help, you may want to run the spreadsheet module from the CAST, the Computer-Assisted Self-Teach Online Training program.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">For complete documentation for the Xess Spreadsheet, please see the following manuals.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Getting Started with Xess</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Xess User's Guide - available online as part of the NX online documentation set</p>
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      <div class="title_division">Features</div>
      <p class="para_division">The NX spreadsheet provides an intelligent interface between Microsoft Excel or the Xess spreadsheet product and NX. It offers a natural table-driven interface to facilitate associative design. You can use the spreadsheet to:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Build variations on a theme or families of parts from a standard table layout.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Augment model design with analytical scenarios.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Integrate business issues such as cost analysis with part design.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Edit expressions for NX hybrid modeling - providing a seamless transfer of conceptual model data between NX and the spreadsheet.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">  Some spreadsheet programs (such as &quot; <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('shared_func/tls_spd_mod_gs_ov_r.html');return(false);">Goalseek</a>&quot;) may not fully support the use of Interpart Expressions within the Modeling Spreadsheet extended functionality. See  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('shared_func/tls_spd_mod_ass_interpart_r.html');return(false);">Interpart Expressions</a>.
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