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@Rick Gallant, try this:

To simplify data transfer between Bluebeam and Excel I highly recommend the following.

1. Data from Bluebeam to Excel should be in .CSV format
2. Data from Excel to Bluebeam should be .FDF format
3. A fillable form template file should be created to receive data from Excel or that you match the name of the form fields exactly.

The workflow I suggest in this case

1. Use CSV Summary (next to the filter list on markups list) to export your quantity of assemblies to excel.
   1. This could be done an number of ways either with counts or custom columns just be consistent.
2. Set up an Excel file to act as a template that has a table where you can import the csv data and automatically organize it.
   1. This will likely be a macro enabled excel doc so it can create the FDF file after this step.
   2. There is a way to create a Excel add-in to avoid any macro enabled files but that doesn't seem necessary to do in this case.
3. Now that your data is in the excel table you can use VBA to generate an FDF file that you can import to Bluebeam.

If you want any examples or additional guidance on this I'm happy to help.

One way is to create an FDF file from the excel inputs. VBA can run the conversion, then you just have to import to PDF. A good way to see how this is done is just by taking your blank form, Export Data as FDF, then open the file in notepad. You should see a precursor to the field values that gives version of the FDF generator, path to the original file, a unique identifier for the PDF, then field names and values formatted as "<< /T(FieldName) /V(FieldValue) >>". It then ends the data with a closing section marking the end of the data and file. Throw your whole string into and LLM model and have it generate code to transform whichever cells you need into FDF data.

There is also a way to import directly from excel without the FDF middle man, alothough I have less experience using it, I think it's the readFileIntoString function if I remember @Mitch Youngs work correctly. If you need we can figure that out, but Chat GPT should also be able to work through that.