[UW-GIS-L] Can't export xy data to shapefile

[Rupp, Richard]

When I have seen this problem it is usually an issue with the field
headers. Sometimes there is an invisible character like a space after
the field name. If you have an older version of Excel or OpenOffice Calc
you can save the spreadsheet as a .dbf file and bring it in to ArcGIS
that way, or save it as a .csv, and import it that way.

Regards, Rick

Richard A. Rupp
Lab. for Geospatial Research, Education, & Outreach
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-6420
Ph. 509-335-2381



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Lutz
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Subject: [UW-GIS-L] Can't export xy data to shapefile


I have an Excel file (.xls) of 13443 records with 37 fields per record.
I can read this file into ArcMap V9.3.  However, when I try to export
the xy data to a shapefile, Arc crashes.  The crash occurs after the
shapefile files have been created, but before data is written to them
(they are all 1 KB in size).

There are no formulae in the file (only numeric and text fields).

I successfully did this export with a two-month old version of the same
data file, but I cannot figure out what is different now (except some
updated data items).

Any suggestions would be gratefully accepted.

James A Lutz, PhD
University of Washington 
College of the Environment 
http://faculty.washington.edu/jlutz Ph:(206)616-3827



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