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      <p class="para_topic">The Gateway spreadsheet is accessed with the Tools&rarr;Spreadsheet menu option from the main menu bar. The Gateway spreadsheet is activated in current application modes accept for Modeling.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">NX will start a copy of Xess, or Microsoft Excel on Windows, and make connections to it automatically. Messages on the status line inform you of the progress made toward connecting with the spreadsheet. If there is a copy of the spreadsheet already running on your display that can accept connections, then NX uses that copy without invoking another instance of the spreadsheet.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">  If there is already a spreadsheet saved in the part, then that spreadsheet will be opened with the application that created it ( Xess or Excel) regardless of the default spreadsheet set in the spreadsheet preferences. If there is no spreadsheet stored in the part, and you are running on Windows, the setting from Preferences&rarr;Spreadsheet (available only on Windows) will be used to determine whether to use Xess or Excel.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">  An Xess spreadsheet session started from a command line can accept connections to NX if you start the program with the command line options &quot;-connect a&quot; or if you toggle the Connections&rarr;Accept Connections option on the spreadsheet main menu bar. Remember that the NX specific version of Xess, xessu, cannot be started from the command line.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('shared_func/tls_spd_gwy_togglexess_r.html');return(false);">Toggling Between Xess and NX</a> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('shared_func/tls_spd_gwy_extfunc_pdown_r.html');return(false);"> Spreadsheet Menu Options</a> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('shared_func/tls_spd_gwy_extfunc_ov_r.html');return(false);"> Extended Functionality</a></p>
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