from alphanumeric to numeric data

[martix]

hello,

I'm a new user of eviews: I have some problems importing data from an excel file. I don't undertstand why when I use the function "open-foreign data as a workfile" and I select an excel file, filled with numeric data, eviews creates series of alphanumeric data, then when I open the series I see numbers in the columns. but since eviews thinks that they are alphanumeric data, when I try to create a regression with another numeric serie it doesn't work. How can I change in numeric data these series of alphanumeric data? I have Eviews 6 student version. I read that someone else had the same problem, I tried to follow what you suggest to do, but I wasn't be able to solve the problem. What's more, when I import data from another excel file it works properly, and I'm able to create series of numeric data without any problem. Could you help me?

Thanks in advance.
Marta

[EViews Gareth]

It is because EViews 6 doesn't recognise the commas as decimals. If you change your commas to points, it should work.