trouble importing Excel file

trouble importing Excel file

by Kellie -
Number of replies: 3
Unable to load Excel file.
> 
> Error: "The central directory was not found in the archive (or you
> were trying to open not the last volume of a segmented archive)."
This is the error message I keep getting when I am trying to import my data from Excel to Stata - any advice?
It is an xlsx file

Thanks



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Re: trouble importing Excel file

by Kellie -

And I did try to convert to a csv file but lost most of my variables

Thanks

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Re: trouble importing Excel file

by Kristen -

When you imported your .csv did you select the option to use the first row as variable names? 

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