[Qgis-user] Editing shapefile attributes in QGIS

[David Bradley]

Can someone point me in the direction of a better way to edit the data in a shapefile? 

Basically I want to export what is already in there to Excel, edit it, and then re-import it. The editing I need to do is to move a few cells into another column, add several columns, and remove many other seemingly superfluous columns.

Thanks for any suggestions!
David