No, I'm just making AOI's offline and need to create several hundred sequentially numbered tags and it would be much easier to do in excel like I would do if they were normal controller tags rather than AOI tags.
One process to consider is this:
1. Create two or three of the sequentially numbered tags in the AOI.
2. Export the AOI to the .L5X file.
3. Open the exported AOI in a text editor and find the few tags. Examine the syntax for those tag definitions in the version of logix you are using.
4. Create an Excel workbook to mimic the syntax. Depending on how elaborate you want to get, you can use the Excel text functions, or just put the various definition components in columns, leveraging the sequencing feature of Excel.
5. Save the Excel workbook as a .CSV (or .XML) file.
6. Open the .CSV in a text editor and use search-and-replace operations to clean-up the output (e.g., remove commas) such that is follows the logix tag definition syntax.
7. Cut-and-paste the correctly formatted text from the text editor file into the .L5X file in the appropriate location.
8. Import the modifed .L5X, and if notified of a formatting error figure out where it went wrong and try again. (I think logix indicates the line number of the first error it encounters).
Sounds like a lot of steps, but probably better then several hundred paste-and-fix within logix.