I am having problems uploading my classmates. I was able to do this before our reunion. I reset the reunion part of the website. Now I get the formulas on the spreadsheet along with the names and addresses. Can anyone help me with this? Thank you. Teresa

I don't understand what the problem is. You're trying to batch upload additional Classmates to your site using the batch upload feature, correct? When you try it what is happening? Are you getting an error message or what exactly?

I emailed you an example. What I am refering to is there seems to be extra words(codes) on the spreadsheet.

Are you starting fresh with the blank import template, or are you using something else? If something else, what specifically?

I was trying to do it staight from the website. I guess I thought before it just pulled from the website. Now when I try to download the template it says only csv files. It won't do anything. Do I have to re-enter everyone's names. All I need right now is the spreadsheet to send to someone with the high school. My brain must be fried from the reuion. lol

Sorry, I'm very confused.

Let's take it from the top. Are you trying to upload additional Classmates to your web site? Or are you trying to download a list of Classmates FROM your web site into the Excel format?

Sorry, no additional classmates. I just need to download a classlist.

Ok, I get it. You had said "upload Classmates" in your opening post, which is a totally different thing from downloading a class list from the system. When you send something to the system you're uploading. When you're receiving something from the system you're downloading.

Ok, so if you click on Manage Classmates and then click the Download Classmates button, what format are you selecting and what specifically is happening next?

I tried to download in excel. It comes up with all the extra words.

What version of Excel do you have? Have you tried downloading in csv and opening that in Excel?

Right now I am using Open Office. I thought that is what I had used before. Can't open it in either form. Thanks for your help. Don't need to make changes to it. Just need to send it to the alumni. Wish she would have let me know before I reset the website.

I can download classmates using Open Office if I choose CSV (from Manage Classmates, Export Class List, comma separated values). Then you can import it into the calc program of Open Office and it will come in as column text.

Thank you very much. I will try that. That must be what someone told me to do last time. Short term memory loss. Don't even want to think what it will be like when the nes reunion comes around. lol

Thank you! You rock. Some how that clicked tonight. I was able to get it to work. Thank you again.

I am setting up our class list in excel. Is there a special format I need to use. ( as in mail merge) I would like everything to transfer correctly so that people can update their profiles. We have not had a reunion in 25 years so our info is not up to date.

Sharon Nye wrote:

Welcome Sharon,

If you want to UPLOAD the classlist, you need to use the UPLOAD TEMPLATE spreadsheet. This is available from the Manage Classmates/Upload Classlist/ Download Template button.

Make sure you read all of the information on the Upload Classlist page.

One important thing to check before uploading is that you have the FIRST NAMES and LAST NAMES in the proper columns of the spreadsheet.