RE GUI

[Michael Lake]

"Cooper, Ben" wrote:
> I always enter the data in Excel first in my preferred manor.  I then create
> a new sheet within Excel that pulls out the relevant columns in the right
> order for Survex.  I then save that sheet as a csv file.  I create a .svx
> file with the relevant standard statements (such as *CALIBRATE) and then
> include the csv file.  This way, I get all the benefits of Excel data entry,
> and all the flexibility of a text file.  It sounds complicated, but in fact,
> once one has been set up, it's very easy.

That sounds quite neat. I have quite a few friends that like both survex
and excell and will pass on this idea to them :-)

Andrew Atkinson wrote....
> Err, one of the joys of survex is that it will coupe with the data in any
> order, hence for all the Ireland stuff the data went in as on the paper and
> then changed survex to match. help when back checking for typos

Yes. I like it when the computer data can be in a similar format to the
field data format for typo checking. Makes it much easier to check for
data entry errors. With survex it's easy, other packages are locked into
their data entry format.

Michael


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