http://cad-1.com/ | One of the most underutilized features in AutoCAD may be the field object, a multiline text object that holds a variable value. A companion feature to the "field" is the table, an object that contains rows and columns that can be manually populated or populated from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Join Michael Calkins, RA, as he reveals the potential for using a table in conjunction with fields, then takes the result to the next step by demonstrating the data extraction techniques, giving AutoCAD an advantage over Excel by offering both graphics and data management.