Ideate Stickies can be created and placed into your project as Revit image elements. This approach has a number of benefits as compared to Sticky Schedules including greater visual fidelity for documents which include longer pieces of text or many images. If managing the precise size of your Excel columns and rows is important, then using Sticky Images is the recommended path. Sticky Images are supported in Revit versions 2018 and forward.
Unlike Sticky Schedules, which only support Excel, Sticky Images can be made from Microsoft Word, PDF, or Excel file formats. Word and Excel source files will be always created as Revit images. PDF source files will be created as images in Revit versions 2018 and 2019 but will be created as PDF images in Revit 2020 and forward.
Sticky Images can be placed on these view types: Sheets, Drafting Views, Legends, and all types of Plan Views. Sticky Images are currently not allowed to be placed in Sections and Elevation views though they can be copy/pasted into these views and will work as expected.
Gridlines in Excel are dotted lines, made out of 1px dots. They show as such on Print Preview in Excel when zoomed in enough. This results in different behavior for Schedule stickies which use line style mapping, and Image stickies, which use an approximation of a ‘visual’ translation mechanism:
Schedule Stricky - the linestyle mapping is respected & the schedule will be created using the correct Revit line style
Image Sticky - displays gridlines as they are displayed in Excel or other image sources, including color assignments.