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I have a well-functioning panel data series in RATS format. But when i import a new series into it from excel, everything looks good -- individuals and times seem to line up when i look at the data. But it won't let me save it! When I try to save, it just sits there, and when i try to close it out it keeps asking if i would like to save it. Obviously i'm doing something wrong but can't figure out what it is. Thanks, JS

Just as another comment. I tried rebooting my computer, to no avail. And with repeated tried to save, I keep getting a 'Runtime Error' saying that Runtime has encountered an unusual process, and has to shut down. This has happened several times. Should I assume that my version of Eviews 8.2 is corrupted and needs to be re-installed?

ok, i figured out a workaround: successfully importing a whole new *.xls data set -- which was just the original plus a new series. But still, this problem seems buggy, more trouble than it should be.

Hi There, I am having the same problem as Jim, getting about the same error message, but when I press the button to clear the memory. Basically, I can't work.
Is this an emergent bug, I never had it before?
Best regards,
Valerio

I'm not sure I understand either the original post or yours. In general, you import the entire contents of an XLS (or XLSX) file. You can read a single series with a DATA instruction by listing just the one series name. You can also start a series edit and copy and paste data from an open Excel spreadsheet into the series editor, but that's not directly taking data from Excel since it's going through the clipboard.