![]() You can simply do this using search and replace (ctrl H). Select the range with the names and replace characters that are not valid for names in Excel by an underscore. Now we have to clean up the district names so that they are applicable as freeform names in Microsoft Excel. Step 5: Clean up the list of district names Copy the data of this column and paste it somewhere into your workbook created in step 3, let’s say in column N. In this example, the header of this column is called “id3”. After you opened the file, you will see a worksheet like this (this example is Excel 2007):Ī lot of data, but the only column we are interested in is column H. And you can open xml files in Microsoft Excel as well. The svg file format is nothing else than xml based (see further explanations here). You can directly open a svg file in Microsoft Excel. Open a new workbook with Microsoft Excel and browse for the svg file. Step 4: Open the svg file in Microsoft Excel This would be a lot of laborious work for 436 districts. And we would have to repeat this for each and every district. If we want to create a choropleth map, we would have to select a freeform, go to the name box and type in the correct name. Excel automatically assigned new names to the shapes like “Freeform 1”, “Freeform 2”, etc. Well, we have the shapes in Excel now, but – as mentioned above – the names of the districts that have been assigned to the shapes in the svg file are gone. You may have to repeat the ungrouping until you have one freeform for each region. Open Microsoft Excel, insert the Enhanced Meta File and ungroup the object to freeform shapes. Step 3: Insert the enhanced meta file into Microsoft Excel Click on “File” and “Save as” and choose Enhanced Meta File (emf) as the file format. Open the svg file with a vector graphic editor like Inkscape (open source). Step 2: Convert the map to Enhanced Meta File format A search string like “file: US congressional districts” will take you to a map like this one including a link for free download: As Dave pointed, a very good source for scalable vector graphic maps is Wikimedia Commons. Here is the step by step tutorial of how to convert loyalty free svg files into Microsoft Excel and build your own choropleth map template:ĭownload the map you need. ![]()
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