RE: st: Import Excel: last for columns ignored

[Joe Canner <jcanner1@jhmi.edu>]

Sergiy,

Thanks for this information.  I updated my Stata to the latest version (not sure why I didn't think of that before), but I still had the same problem.  I will contact Stata to inform them that perhaps their fix did not entirely "take".

I tried to resave the Excel file, as per your advice, which didn't work, but I was able to copy and paste all of the cells to a new spreadsheet and that worked.

Regards,
Joe

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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Sergiy Radyakin
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 11:22 AM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Import Excel: last for columns ignored

Joe, this is a confirmed problem with Stata 12, it used ranges data
saved in file rather then actually looking at the populated data. Some
programs do not set those ranges, hence the result.

I have reported same to StataCorp in summer 2013 and it is reported as
fixed in the 25nov2013 update (see item #10 here:
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?whatsnew12).

You can resave in excel o refresh cached ranges. Gnumeric definitely
saved wrong ranges, open office AFAIK too.

Best, Sergiy Radyakin

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Joe Canner <jcanner1@jhmi.edu> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am trying to import an Excel spreadsheet into Stata 12.1.  The spreadsheet has 22 columns (A-V) and 438 rows.  When I try to import, the default cell range is A1:Q438 and when I try to change the "Q" to a "V" it tells me: "The right column is out of range. Choose a value between A and Q inclusive."
>
> I was able to work around this by saving the spreadsheet as a CSV, but that is not a great solution because all of the date/time variables are input as strings. Are there settings in Excel or Stata might cause this to happen?  I thought I remembered a question like this previously on Statalist, but I couldn't find anything online.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe Canner
>
>
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