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Review the following for additional information:

Copy items to

sheet

Choose In a row or In a column to copy the names of multiple tags

selected in a Tag Search (or items in a Module Browse search) to
the spreadsheet in a row or column of values, respectively. The

default setting is In a column.
This command is also available as a shortcut to the Tag Search

ribbon item (2007).

Copy PI Server

Name

Select the check box to copy the name of the FactoryTalk Historian

server data source into an adjacent spreadsheet cell when tag names
are copied to a spreadsheet.

Use PI Server Time

Zone

Select the check box to force FactoryTalk Historian DataLink to use

the FactoryTalk Historian server time zone as a reference value to

interpret functions. If cleared, FactoryTalk Historian DataLink uses the
time zone setting of the client machine.
This option is relevant only if a PI server has a time zone setting
different from the client machine.

Display #N/A

instead of Blanks

Select the check box to substitute #N/A (Not Applicable) for blank

cells when there are fewer data points than cells in a function array.
Functions added to a spreadsheet maintain their original array size,

even if variance over a particular time period produces fewer data

values, resulting in one or more empty cells.
This feature is particularly useful when function results are plotted

through the Excel charting package.

Locale
Independent

Select the check box to force FactoryTalk Historian DataLink to
interpret input time strings according to PI time format rules,

regardless of the locale settings of the client machine. PI time
assumes all strings are English and use the date-time order

dd-MMM-

yyyy hh:mm:ss

.

Clear the check box to parse date-time formats according to regional
settings on the client machine, falling back to PI time format rules

only if necessary.

Disable automatic
task pane display

on click

For Excel 2007 only, select this check box to prevent the automatic
display of the function task pane when clicking in a function cell.

Right-click to choose the function name and display the pane
manually.

Disable "Resize to
show all values"

message

Select this check box to display no warning message when the
number of values retrieved by a recalculated array exceed the number

that can be displayed.