Re: importing Microsoft Office Excel files into PSPP

[Alan Mead]

I don't think that's supported. In the past, the advice has been to save
the XLSX file as a supported format (ODT or delimited file) and import that.

I recommend doing this for SPSS as well, because when I import an Excel
file directly in SPSS, it makes guesses about variable types/lengths
that I frequently don't like. I've had it guess wrong about string
length causing data loss. That seems ridiculous.

-Alan

On 11/12/2019 8:47 AM, Dr Richard Fiene wrote:
> Has anyone had problems in importing Microsoft Office Excel files into PSPP?
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