SPSS Programming and Data Management, 4th Edition: A Guide for ...

31GettingDataintoSPSS/TYPE=XLS/FILE='c:\examples\data\sales.xls'/SHEET=NAME 'Gross Revenue'/CELLRANGE=RANGE 'A2:I15'/READNAMES=on .• The TYPE subcommand identifies the file type as Excel, version 5 or later. (Forearlier versions, use GET TRANSLATE.)• The SHEET subcommand identifies which worksheet of the workbook to read.Instead of the NAME keyword, you could use the INDEX keyword and an integervalue indicating the sheet location in the workbook. Without this subcommand,the first worksheet is read.• The CELLRANGE subcommand indicates that SPSS should start reading at columnA, row 2, and read through column I, row 15.• The READNAMES subcommand indicates that the first row of the specified rangecontains column labels to be used as variable names.Figure 3-5Excel worksheet read into SPSS• The Excel column label Store Number is automatically converted to the SPSSvariable name StoreNumber, since variable names cannot contain spaces. Theoriginal column label is retained as the variable label.