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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Dumb DBF question |
| Date: |
05/09/2006 12:55:01 PM |
| From: |
Larry F. Holt |
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I am able to get my calculations to save as dbf now, but I can't get
this data to join a shapefile to save my life.
When I look at the data it shows the Blockgroups stored as text, but
when I try to convert them, it loses part of the State Code.
Larry Holt
Director of Research
Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
> [mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Emily Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:01 PM
> To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
> Subject: Re: [gislist] Dumb DBF question
>
> Here's another thing you can do. After you make sure your
> columns are formatted (if numbers are left as "general" your
> decimal places will be lost), click on Insert-Name-Define in
> order to open up a dialog box that defines the extent of your
> data. The data range will probably be the same as the
> original excel file before you added the extra rows or
> columns of data for your DBF file. Just include the extended
> area in your selection, and then you can save the file as a
> DBF without having to copy/paste to a new worksheet.
>
> -Emily
>
> At 12:13 PM 5/9/2006 -0400, humberto Perotto wrote:
> >Larry,
> >
> >I have had this problem in the past. What I do is to copy
> the data into a
> >new spreadsheet and paste it as values. Then I make sure
> that the columns
> >that are numbers are displayed as numbers with the number
> characters after
> >the comma, and finally I highlight the whole data region I
> want and then I
> >save that as my new dbf file. Tha works for me, but if there
> is an easier
> >way to do it, that would be great!
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Humberto
> _________________________________________________
> I need to do an analysis on some data in a DBF-but after I have run
> calculations in Excel and pop it back into DBF, the data isn't showing
> up in the DBF.
>
> Larry Holt
> Director of Research
> Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce
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