[Qgis-user] Editing shapefile attributes in QGIS

[Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)]

Paulo,

Well my first answer would be to suggest you simply open the DBF file up in Excel and edit it directly, as long as you leave the ID columns (to associate the attributes with the Geometries) alone you can do all that you describe.  But Excel no longer opens DBF files by default (or does it now, again?).  So, you should use OpenOffice or LibreOffice to open them, and then do the same thing in there.

Bobb



From: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paulo van Breugel
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 2:09 PM
To: David Bradley; QGIS user email list
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Editing shapefile attributes in QGIS

You can do a lot with the Table manager (you can find and install this plugin via the plugin manager: menu --> plugins --> manage and install plugins).
If that is not enough, you can of course always open the dbf file. I would recommend using LibreOffice/OpenOffice instead of excel as in my experience at least Excel can sometimes mess up the dbf file.

Paulo

On 18 December 2014 20:39:33 CET, David Bradley <dododave at gmail.com<mailto:dododave at gmail.com>> wrote:

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

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