Hi Everyone-- Brian McKenzie at the Census Bureau provided this information on viewing files in Excel to help those of you when you download the tract or block group data from the "summary file" format, instead of the AFF. Please be sure to share your experiences with analyzing the new 2005-2009 ACS data with the CTPP listserv. Thanks in advance. Elaine ________________________________ From: brian.mckenzie(a)census.gov [mailto:brian.mckenzie@census.gov] The Excel-based retrieval tool that I mentioned yesterday can be access via the following page. Once you http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/summary_file/ <http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/summary_file/> . Below this link is the user guide. You just download the excel file with the macro built into it onto your hard drive, and you can view any SF table in Excel format rather than having to deal with ASCII files.