Listserv messages you may have missed between members of NICAR-L. Topics include the benefits of using FTP software over browser downloads for speed and batching files; converting SPSS data to Excel using 'File/Save As'; copying import specifications between Access databases using the 'Get External Data' function and checking the 'Import/Export Specs' option; creating dot-density maps in ArcView by aggregating point data into census tracts; using the instr(), Left(), and Mid() functions in Access to split name fields; and calculating weighted averages for school test scores.
Another user tip addresses disk space errors in Access by changing the location of TEMP files in the Windows Environment settings.