Christopher I imagine you'll receive better alternatives than this one, I hope you do because I'd like to know a better way too. I've always opened the Excel file into Mapinfo and then saved it as something else using the Save Copy As option in the File menu. If you then open this new file you will find that you can edit away to your hearts content. Hope this helps. Simon -----Original Message----- From: Martin, Christopher (WSA Telford) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 August 2000 10:59 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: MI: Using Accessing Excel Files I'm a bit rusty on MI Pro, and I'm having a minor problem, which I think you more regular users should easily be able to help me with. I'm trying to show some colleagues the basics of MI, and they have some appropriate data in an Excel file that they thought would be a good starting point. Though creaking a bit, I've got them in and up & running, but I've hit a minor problem; they're accessing the excel sheet directly, but cannot edit the data. In my day you didn't have all this Office integration stuff, and you have to import the data. Why does it claim the layer is read-only (it isn't at OS level...), and more importantly, how do I give them the right access to it? Thanks... Chris Martin GIS Consultant WS Atkins Consultants Ltd (01952) 201234 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
