Hi Adam,

Thank you once again for being so helpful. This tool is exactly what we 
need. 

Lucy

On Friday, October 9, 2015 at 9:22:33 PM UTC+2, Adam Cox wrote:
>
> Hello all, it seems to be pretty common that legacy data will exist in the 
> form of an Excel spreadsheet.  There are a few different ways to handle 
> those spreadsheets, so I've put together some documentation on one of them, 
> which uses a SQL query within Excel itself to make the conversion.  (I also 
> use Notepad++ to do a find/replace.)
>
> The example uses a very simple table that just has columns for resource 
> id, name, nametype, and lat/long coordinates.  Hopefully it's all clear and 
> easy to follow along, and you should be able to augment the process to 
> handle additional columns pretty easily, once you understand the concept.
>
> Ultimately, a program like MS Access is more suited to handle these 
> operations, but if you're most comfortable with Excel and that's how all 
> your data is stored already, this information should be very helpful.
>
> You can find it in the Arches-HIP documentation 
> <https://arches-hip.readthedocs.org/en/latest>, in the Extra section (for 
> now at least).
>
> Any suggestions for improvement are welcome!
>
> Adam
>

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