Many thanks Marcin for the appended file. Much appreciated.
I have now tried the cut and paste approach that has worked without
generating additional ghost variables.
It would be good to get a bug fix in Gretl  for uploading Panel data
directly from an xlsx file ,however, without the addition of superfluous
empty variables or having to resort to a cut & paste approach.
Brian

On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 at 17:38, Marcin Błażejowski <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 12/15/25 18:16, Brian Revell wrote:
>
> Hi
> I have an xlsx datafile comprising 10 rivers labelled 1..10, 24
> observations dated 2000-2023 plus 5 variables (See attached screenshot). I
> have use File open command specifying it is an xlsx file which it reads and
> then produces an error message.
> F*ound 1 valid sheet*
> *Found 11 Variables and 240 observations!!!*
> *Name missing for variable 7 !!!*
>
> I am using Gretll version 2025c
>
> Strange thing (all on Debian):
>
> 1. clipboard method (copy+paste): works perfectly,
>
> 2. xlsx importing: got same error as Brian,
>
> 3. converted to ods: works, thought some fake variables were imported (see
> attached file).
>
> Marcin
>
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