Terry,

Thanks for pointing out about the Key Value Pair, but I did that and I still
had problems until I eliminated the quotation marks.  Once I eliminated
the quote marks, everything worked fine.

L.

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Hello Larry,

Your information about how the HEI file works (or doesn't work) with the IPEDS
import is wrong!  It works very well.  What you probably did not do as one of the
steps in the import is to check 'Key Value Pair' in the "File Type" selection.

If you follow that, I believe you'll will see that it works.

Thanks, Terry

Larry Hunter wrote:

> Please forgive me if you have already found out this information, BUT...
>
> when you are doing the IPEDS Completions Survey and you download
> your institution's data from HEI, you MUST remove the quotation marks
> that appear on each record (from HEI) before trying to upload that
> file onto the IPEDS database for your use.  Does that make sense?!
>
> I tried to upload, not realizing I must remove the quotes, and guess what...
> it didn't work!  The good thing is that I used my handy-dandy IPEDS
> training manual (*tongue planted firmly in cheek!*) and found the
> number for the IPEDS Help Desk,and believe it or not, the Help Desk
> was very Help-ful!  ;-)  (and extremely friendly, too!)
>
> So, I just thought I'd throw this out to any of you who, like me, did not know
> this information.  Perhaps some of the guys from HEI (I know you are out
> there reading this! hehehe) could talk to someone in HEI programming
> so that the quotes could be forever removed.  Then again, perhaps not!
> Who knows!
>
> In any case, enjoy your IPEDS experience and I'll see you in a few weeks...
>
> Larry

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