RE: [EnergyPlus_Support] open idf fiel with excel

["Crawley, Drury" <Drury.Crawley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There is an option in IDF Editor to preserve the order of objects in
your IDF (new in V 2.1).
 
Go to File, Save Options.  There you can specify the Saved Order of
Objects as 'Original with New' at top or bottom or 'Sorted'.  'Sorted'
is the way it used to work. 'Original with New ...' preserves the order
of your IDF as it is read it--it adds new objects at the top or bottom
as you specify.
 

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From: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yuen Li
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:45 PM
To: energyplus_support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [EnergyPlus_Support] open idf fiel with excel





I agree with your suggestion, Linda. Even with Wordpad you need to make
sure that the file is saved back in 'plain text' format.

The Wordpad does not recognise the extension .idf. Therefore, you must
specify the format after making any changes.

If you use Wordpad only to print the .idf file, make sure you do not
save the file after printing, when asked by the PC.

I do not trust the IDFEditor 100% also. It is too smart sometimes, by
removing or changing some listing order of the items.

Keep a back up file, before doing any changes.

Dr. Li. ( I was the only E+ user on a Windows'98 last year, now I am
using a VISTA PC )

To: EnergyPlus_Support@yahoogroups.comFrom
<mailto:EnergyPlus_Support%40yahoogroups.comFrom> : linda@lawrie.comDate
<mailto:linda%40lawrie.comDate> : Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:44:28 -0700Subject:
Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] open idf fiel with excel

Excel is not a good choice to open an IDF file. The format of the IDF
files is precise and Excel may not preserve the fields properly. Use
Wordpad if you don't have another editor.You could also look into using
EPMacro that comes with EnergyPlus if you are parameterizing single
values.At 02:30 AM 3/6/2008, houcem mechri wrote:> I met some problems
in modifying idf file using Excel. When I > open the new idf file (yet
modified by Excel for example I change a > conductivity of a material)
using idf editor the new file it is empty!!LindaEnergyPlus WebSite:
http://www.energyplus.govOwner: <http://www.energyplus.govOwner:>
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