# Can I upload comments for entities and attributes from a flat file.

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**Category:** Toad Data Modeler\
**Created:** [August 1, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/can-i-upload-comments-for-entities-and-attributes-from-a-flat-file/30596 "2014-08-01T11:00:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![rebecca.hryniewich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@rebecca.hryniewich](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/rebecca.hryniewich)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/can-i-upload-comments-for-entities-and-attributes-from-a-flat-file/30596/1 "2014-08-01T11:00:50Z")

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I would like to do an automatic upload of entity and attribute comments from an excel file (or any delimited text file) to an existing model. I have an excel spreadsheet with all my attribute descriptions and would rather not have to retype them into the model. Is there a way to do this?

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**Author:** ![Bert\_Scalzo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/bert_scalzo/32/274_2.png) [@Bert\_Scalzo](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Bert_Scalzo)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 11:10am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/can-i-upload-comments-for-entities-and-attributes-from-a-flat-file/30596/2 "2014-08-01T11:10:55Z")

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TDM has ability to export and import to/from excel so that one can do mass edit over there. Check the online help and I think TW has some blogs on it as well …

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**Author:** ![kevinstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@kevinstern](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/kevinstern)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/can-i-upload-comments-for-entities-and-attributes-from-a-flat-file/30596/3 "2014-08-01T12:25:42Z")

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Blog on Excel export/import is here: [www.toadworld.com/…/toad-data-modeler-5-2-excel-export-and-import.aspx](http://www.toadworld.com/products/toad-data-modeler/b/weblog/archive/2014/03/24/toad-data-modeler-5-2-excel-export-and-import.aspx)