topic Geocoding X Y coordinates from and Excel file in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/geocoding-x-y-coordinates-from-and-excel-file/m-p/520513#M29591 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm trying to plot a series of X Y coordinates found in an excel spreadsheet as points on my map.&nbsp; I'm able to successfully add the spreadsheet to my table of contents but when I right click the file and then click 'Display X Y Data,' the next dialogue box that appears doesn't allow me to select the columns in the excel sheet which contain my X Y coordinates as the "X field" and "Y field."&nbsp; As a matter of fact, when I click the drop down arrows next to X Field and Y Field, none of the column headers from my excel sheet are available.&nbsp; The column headers where my X Y coordinates are only contain letters and underscores and meet all the other criteria to be readable by ArcMap.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there some step that I am missing?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:02:32 GMT RyanBaer 2014-03-26T13:02:32Z Geocoding X Y coordinates from and Excel file https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/geocoding-x-y-coordinates-from-and-excel-file/m-p/520513#M29591 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm trying to plot a series of X Y coordinates found in an excel spreadsheet as points on my map.&nbsp; I'm able to successfully add the spreadsheet to my table of contents but when I right click the file and then click 'Display X Y Data,' the next dialogue box that appears doesn't allow me to select the columns in the excel sheet which contain my X Y coordinates as the "X field" and "Y field."&nbsp; As a matter of fact, when I click the drop down arrows next to X Field and Y Field, none of the column headers from my excel sheet are available.&nbsp; The column headers where my X Y coordinates are only contain letters and underscores and meet all the other criteria to be readable by ArcMap.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there some step that I am missing?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:02:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/geocoding-x-y-coordinates-from-and-excel-file/m-p/520513#M29591 RyanBaer 2014-03-26T13:02:32Z Re: Geocoding X Y coordinates from and Excel file https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/geocoding-x-y-coordinates-from-and-excel-file/m-p/520514#M29592 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Ryan,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>did you try and open an empty MXD and then click File -&gt; Add Data... -&gt; Add XY Data...?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Tim</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:24:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/geocoding-x-y-coordinates-from-and-excel-file/m-p/520514#M29592 TimWitt 2014-03-26T13:24:01Z Re: Geocoding X Y coordinates from and Excel file https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/geocoding-x-y-coordinates-from-and-excel-file/m-p/520515#M29593 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I actually just figured it out.&nbsp; I think the coordinates weren't formatted properly ine excel.&nbsp; It seems to be working fine.&nbsp; Thanks for the responses.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:31:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/geocoding-x-y-coordinates-from-and-excel-file/m-p/520515#M29593 RyanBaer 2014-03-26T13:31:57Z