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| About xlWorkbench Models | |||
About xlWorkbench Models 1.1.1 About AWB Models An AWB model is a standard Excel workbook that has been enhanced for Workbench Mode. In particular, an AWB model typically will contain forms, while a standard Excel workbook will never contain them. When Excel is in Workbench Mode, you can activate and print the forms in a model using features of the AWB program, such as the Navigator. You also can work with standard Excel workbooks, or non-models, in Workbench Mode, but because a non-model never contains forms, many AWB features will be unavailable.
While an AWB model has been enhanced, it is still an Excel workbook. Nothing has been taken away from it, and you can work with it exactly as you would any other Excel workbook. That is, when Excel is not in Workbench Mode, you won’t notice anything special about an AWB model.
Because the AWB program and an AWB model are meant to work together, AWB models come with a special file extension: awb, instead of xls. This feature is for the sake of convenience only. It simply allows you to tell at a glance which workbooks have been enhanced for Workbench Mode.
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