在ArcGIS中应用EXCEL表格数据.docVIP

48 ArcUser January–March 2004 Working With Excel in ArcGIS By Monica Pratt, ArcUser Editor ArcGIS works well with Microsoft Excel, the spreadsheet component of Microsoft Office. Data can be shared back and forth between these two programs in a variety of ways. Data that has been created or is being maintained in Excel can be directly accessed by ArcGIS through a con-nection created in ArcCatalog. Joining or relating Excel tables with attribute tables for spatial data provides additional information. Excel can be used as a tool for quickly editing attribute tables. GIS users also take advantage