Hi, I would like find information about Cartography and GIS. Are there internet sites with information about GIS and Cartography? Thanks, Alessandro -----Mensagem original----- De: John Haynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviada em: Quarta-feira, 9 de Maio de 2001 13:59 Para: DopeyLSPLSP; Caroline Hilton; MI-L Assunto: Re: MI-L MI: fields shortened upon Excel import Doubly support this solution. The export to a delimited ASCII file (we use tab delimited) solves MANY problems generated by excel. John Haynes Director Geodata Consultants, Inc. 1-800-838-6661 www.geodataconsult.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "DopeyLSPLSP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Caroline Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MI-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:55 PM Subject: RE: MI-L MI: fields shortened upon Excel import > Perhaps it's best just to export the excel file to a comma delimited or a > pipe delimited text file and then open in MapInfo. Works fine. It happened > to me all the time, with excel. Furthermore, for some excel versions, it > sometime cuts off any rows that exceeded a certain number of rows. Text > file usually works around that problem. > > > -- > Erick Posner > -- > http://posner.freeyellow.com/ErickPosner.htm - Resume > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Caroline > Hilton > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 2:33 AM > To: MI-L > Subject: Re: MI-L MI: fields shortened upon Excel import > > > Hi all > > I have had a similar in the past, where I import an excel file and not only > the values, but also the field names, are shortened by one character. > Annoying to say the least. It doesn't happen every time, but used to happen > sometimes with MI5.5 and now does with 6 too. > > any ideas? > > thanks, > Caroline > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Phillips, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mi-L (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 9:33 PM > Subject: MI-L MI: fields shortened upon Excel import > > > As the title suggests, upon importing an Excel file, numeric fields are > shortened from 6 to 4 decimal places. Yipes. Never has happened to me > before, though I've performed the operation many times. I've triple-checked > that the fields are formatted correctly in Excel (to the point of exporting > the file as text and reimporting it to Excel), and that there are no > extraneous characters in the nether regions of the spreadsheet. I'm using > MI6 and select the "Use Row Above Selected Range..." option. > > I know that I could simply import the text file mentioned above, but that > doesn't solve the fundamental problem. Are there other subtleties to > importing spreadsheets that I have overlooked? > > Regards, > > ACP > > ************************ > Andrew Phillips, Ph.D. > Illinois State Geological Survey > 615 E. Peabody Dr. > Champaign, IL 61820 > 217-333-2513 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. > > _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
