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Re: st: password protection and -import excel-
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Lisa Davis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: password protection and -import excel-
Date
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:07:57 -0600
Your solution is what I have done in the past. I have not found a
better solution, either.
Lisa
Lisa Davis, MD
Rheumatology Instructor
University of Colorado Denver
On 6/28/12, Clyde B Schechter <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been given some data to analyze in the form of several Excel files.
> I want to bring them into Stata with -import excel- in a loop, but they are
> password protected (I have the password). I can't find anything in the help
> file or the manual about an option for specifying the password.
>
> So then I thought I might do it in Stat Transfer (version 11), but I can't
> find any way to get that to open a password protected file either.
>
> For now, I'm just going through them all manually, re-saving them under new
> names without password protection, and then importing them. But it's
> tedious. I'm hoping somebody out there knows a way around this.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Clyde Schechter
> Dept. of Family & Social Medicine
> Albert Einstein College of Medicine
> Bronx, NY, USA
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