XL: Valid Geographic Names for Microsoft Map
ID: Q168691
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The information in this article applies to:
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Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
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Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0
SUMMARY
In Microsoft Excel, you can use Microsoft Map (Microsoft Data Map in
Microsoft Excel 7.0) to graphically represent data associated with
a geographic area. In order for Microsoft Map to recognize a territory,
such as a country or province, the name must be a valid name or
abbreviation.
To see a listing of valid geographic territories that Microsoft Map
recognizes, open the file, Mapstats.xls. This file is installed with the
Microsoft Map program and is located in the following folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Data Map\Data.
Mapstats.xls contains the following geographic and demographic
information:
- World demographic data by country
- United States demographic data by state
- Canada demographic data by province
- Mexico demographic data by state
- Europe demographic data by country
- United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland by county
- Australia demographic data by state
- South Africa and neighboring countries by region
For additional information on creating a data map using Microsoft Map,
please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q147637 XL: How to Create a Map with Microsoft Data Map
Additional query words:
97 XL97 datamap
Keywords : xlmap
Version : :; Win95:7.0
Platform : Win95
Issue type : kbinfo