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You can replicate what Excel2CSPro does by generating a fixed width text file. You can do this in all versions of Excel (including Office 2000) by saving your spreadsheet as "Formatted space delimited text (.prn)". I'm not sure if this is possible in LibreOffice but it may be. Before you s...

In CSPro 6.2 and above you can add images to value set items. Look up value set images in the help for details.

Instead of testing if the result of pos is equal to 1 you should test if it is different from zero. It doesn't matter what position the letter is in as long as the letter is present in the checkbox string. Pos returns zero if the letter is NOT in the string so if pos is different from zero then the ...

Are those in your id-items? You can't save partial until all the id-items are filled in.

You can do this with a batch edit application although you need to write a bit of logic. Use a counter combined with the "skip case" statement to keep only every nth case.

This could have happened if you modified your data dictionary outside of the data entry application (opening the .dcf file instead of the .ent file) and removed or added items that are referenced on forms. Did you delete an item named "CITY" from the dictionary "RETAILSURVEY"? If...

You may need to use a more recent version of Microsoft Office. Excel2CSPro uses Microsoft Office and we have never tested with Office 2000. We don't have any machines with a version that old. It has been tested with Office 2010 and above.

How is it not working?

Use the getlabel() function. There is an example of this in the PDF that @htuser posted.

The export data tool can convert the data dictionary to XML format. There are options for CSPro's own XML format as well as the standard DDI XML (http://www.ddialliance.org/). This does not convert the data itself but the XML that is generated contains the start positions and lengths from the dictio...