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Nov 30, 2010 04:54 PM
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Nov 30, 2010 1:54 PM
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| Posted in reply to message from jerseygirl 11-30-2010
First, I am still on JMP 8.0 and when I import an Excel file, either from 97-2003 or 2007 formats, the empty cells come across as empty cells. You might have some luck if you can strip down the file to the minimum formatting before transferring, or save it in another format (like *.CSV).
Second, if you have to use Excel and you have to do this often and you never have zeros that you want, I would write a jsl script to process the file for you (even though you asked for a way to avoid checking each column).
You can test this out by adding a new column and creating a formula that says something like:
Substitute( :Column with Zeros, 0, Empty() )
A simple script that makes a new table, populates the new table with only the non-zero entries, adjusts any formatting mistakes, and closes the old table can be written in a few lines and run very quickly.