Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
Good point! It pays off to take care to get all your column formats
and widths in shape in excel before you import into maptitude.
Mike
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> But you have to be careful to not have the columns too narrow, the
> conversion will lop off information not visible on the spread sheet,
> and Maptitude will not format numbers with more than 5 decimals.
>
> Richard Hoskins
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> Subject: Re: [Maptitude] Reading an Excel file into Maptitude
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> Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
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> i've found that if I save any spreadsheets as dbf files and then
> import, maptitude does a much better job of getting the formats
> right for each of the fields. (don't forget to name your database
> and tell excell where it is). In either case, like Kjartan says, the
> decimals are still there but you can't see them until you tell
> maptitude how many decimals to display. Converting to dbf first
> should make it easier.
>
> Mike
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> > Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
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> > >
> > > I tried that, and the save to bin gave me columns that truncated
> > > all the decimals. So ... no way to read in an Excel file with
> > > coordinate info.
> >
> > The decimals are all there, they are just not being displayed. Use
> > Dataview-Column Settings and change the display format to show the
> > decimals.
> >
> > -Kjartan
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