title: How can I import TFS work items with "many to many" direct links from Excel
body: <p>I have a <em>Excel</em> spreadsheet of requirements created from ReqPro that I need to import into TFS.  Each requirement has a <strong>linked-from</strong> and <strong>linked-to</strong> field, both of which can contain more than one entry.  Since the link relationship is <em>many to many</em> it requires that the <em>direct-link</em> type be used (not <em>parent-child</em>).  I thought I would be able to import this using Excel 2010, however when opening a query using direct-links in Excel the results are <em>flat</em> and contain no linkage information.  I have over 10,000 of these requirements to import with thousands of links so I need to automate this.  Is there an easy way to import <em>many-to-many</em> direct-links into TFS?</p>