Discover how to quickly transform spreadsheet data without writing a line of code. You'll see how you can use FME to create an automated process for: moving data in and out of Microsoft Excel, integrating spreadsheets with spatial data, and performing data validation. Plus learn about the new functionality in FME's Excel reader and writer – which were both re-imagined and re-built in June 2013. Visit http://www.safe.com/webinars for a recording of this webinar.

1. How to Accelerate Microsoft Excel
Workflows with FME
18th September 2013
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2. Agenda
Introduction
 Safe Software
 FME Desktop
 Why FME & Excel
Live Demos
 Reading & Writing Excel Data
Q&A
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3. Who Are We?
Dale Lutz
 Co-Founder & VP of Product
Development
Mark Stoakes
 ProServices Manager
Iris Gutowski
 Product Specialist
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4. Questions are Encouraged!
Please submit using the
GoToWebinar PanelWe will follow-up with unanswered questions
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5. @SafeSoftware
95+ exuberant
employees
Partners
World-Wide
Located in Surrey,
British Columbia
Thousands of happy
customers
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6. What is FME?
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Convert data
Transform data
Share data
Integrate data
Validate data
And more
FME transforms data to use
and share.

7. Poll: How long have you been using FME?
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8. Why use FME for Excel?
 Large Data
 Excel size limits ?
 Spatial data
 Derived data
 Merging sheets or other data
 Repeatability & automation

9. City of Vancouver – Open Data
 Reading Excel data
 Reorganising your data
No creatures were injured in the course of making this demonstration

10. 10
Excel Reader
 Excel reading. More flexibility.
 Excel ADO deprecated
 Support for:
 Reading multiple sheets
 Named ranges
 Read formulas
 Attribute Schema adjustment
 Create Geometry
 Set Coordinate System!

11. 11
Excel Writer
 Excel writing. More flexibility.
 Excel ADO deprecated
 Support for:
 Writing multiple sheets
 Formatting
 Named ranges
 Templates

12. Bird & egg survey data
 Merging data in interesting ways
 Using SQL on non-SQL datasets
 Bird Species
 Nest Locations
 Egg Surveys
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13. Poll: How much of your spreadsheet data
has a spatial component to it?
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14. Creating spatial data
 Convert X/Y fields to
geometry
What could John Snow
have achieved with the
FME Excel reader?

15. ZONE LANDTYPE AGE GENDER Count
103 Completed 65 and over Female 1
103 Completed 25-44 Male 1
103 Completed 45-64 Male 1
103 Completed 25-44 Female 1
103 Completed 5-14 Male 1
103 Vacant Dwelling 1
104 Completed 25-44 Male 1
104 Completed 20-24 Female 1
104 Completed No Response No Response 1
104 Completed No Response No Response 1
104 Completed 25-44 Male 1
104 Completed 20-24 Male 1
104 Completed 45-64 Male 1
Demographic Data
 Summaries, Pivots and Statistics
 AttributePivoter
• Summarize by ZONE
• Create columns for
Gender/Age
• Create a Count
Statistic

16. Larger
Datasets
 More Pivots and Statistics
 Create subsets of large datasets
 Reformatting attribute values
 XLS Templates for charts
Excel data sizes or
performance may restrict
automation tasks for larger
datasets
Date reformat:
01-DEC-2011 20:22:27
to
20111206

17. Poll: Which Excel workflows would you
like to automate?
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18. Automation
 FME Server or FME Cloud
FME Server
FME Cloud

19. New to FME?
 Visit our Getting Started Page:
www.safe.com/fme/getting-started
 Attend a weekly FME Overview webinar:
safe.com/WeeklyIntro
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20. Save the Date
Webinar: Maximize the Value of Raster Data
Using FME (October 2)
FME World Tour 2014 (April – June 2014)
FME International User Conference 2014
(20th Anniversary Celebration)
• June 10 – 13, 2014 in Vancouver, Canada
Recorded Webinars
www.safe.com/webinars

21. Free FME Training
Learn More: www.safe.com/training
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Online Courses - Live & Hands-On
 September 18: FME and KML (Advanced)
 September 24-25: FME Desktop
Tutorials & Recorded Courses

22. Get Involved!
fmepedia.com/community
fmepedia.com/knowlege
@SafeSoftware
youtube.com/FMEChannel
blog.safe.com
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23. #fmewebinar
Q&A

24. Thank You!
 Sales
 info@safe.com
 Support
 www.safe.com/support
 (604) 501-9985 ext. 278
 Mark Stoakes
 Mark.Stoakes@safe.com
 Iris Gutowski
 Iris.Gutowski@safe.com
Dale Lutz
 Dale.Lutz@safe.com
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