[Gretl-users] Re: Excel 2003 files

[John Paravantis]

Occasionally, I have come across CERTAIN Excel files that are formatted 
properly for read into Gretl BUT have weird variable names (in the first 
row). On such instances, as I recall, Gretl gives a somewhat cryptic 
message about a character in a variable name (or the like).

I remember that I was annoyed that it did not SPECIFICALLY give 
information on the offending variable, so I had to search all the 
columns manually.

Other than these rather vague memories, I am afraid I cannot be more 
specific. Neither do I possess such a file any longer.

John Paravantis
University of Piraeus
Greece

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>    1. Excel 2003 files (Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti)
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> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:37:17 +0100 (CET)
> From: "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" <r.lucchetti at univpm.it>
> Subject: [Gretl-users] Excel 2003 files
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> Dear all,
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> what follows is a summary of a recent exchange on the developers' list: 
> rumour has it that sometimes gretl can't open files created by excel 2003 
> properly. I don't have excel myself, but I ran some experiments using a 
> friend's computer and I was unable to generate realistic test cases in xls 
> format that gretl couldn't open. After my request, Sven tried too, but 
> with the same result. Allin then suggested that maybe the rumour 
> originated from files in the 2003 XML office format, which we know we 
> can't read presently.
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> So, as per Sven's suggestion, this is a request for cooperation: has any 
> of you come across an xls file created by excel 2003 which gretl couldn't 
> open? If so, could you provide us with it so that we try to figure out 
> what the problem is?
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> Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
> Dipartimento di Economia
> Università Politecnica delle Marche
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> r.lucchetti at univpm.it
> http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti
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