Re: st: -xmlsave- to Excel (for Mac?)

[Ronnie Babigumira <rb.glists@gmail.com>]

Hmm... works for me. Actually simply double clicking the file opened it in excel (with text files I would have to open 
it from within excel).

Windows xp pro, MS Office 2003, stata 9.1

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. input a b c

             a          b          c
  1. 1 2 3
  2. 4 5 6
  3. 8 6 2
  4. end

. li

     +-----------+
     | a   b   c |
     |-----------|
  1. | 1   2   3 |
  2. | 4   5   6 |
  3. | 8   6   2 |
     +-----------+

. xmlsave gofigure, doc(excel)
file gofigure.xml saved


clinton.thompson@summitllc.us wrote:

> Hello All,
> I am using S/E 9.1 for Macintosh.
> Perhaps I am missing something woefully obvious, but shouldn't the use of
> -xmlsave- create a file that is readable by Excel??  As I understand the
> help file, the following syntax ought to create a file (generic
> spreadsheet) that Excel can read:
>
> xmlsave gofigure, doc(excel)
>
> After gofigure.xml is created, the file can be opened w/ a text editor,
> albeit not w/ MS Excel.  Could this be because I'm using a Mac??  Note
> that the text file for gofigure.xml does not present the file in what i
> would consider the "expected" format, i.e. variable names on the top line
> followed by the data...
>
> many thanks in advance!
> --Clint
>
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