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How do I add a column to an attribute table?

When I open up the attribute table I'm unable to click the edit pencil because it's grayed out?

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Ultimately, I'm trying to transfer data in a column I have in Excel into this zoning shapefile.

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I tried searching for a solution to this issue but wasn't able to find anything.

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QGIS, or more specifically OGR, has two different drivers for XLS and XLSX (see http://www.gdal.org/ogr_formats.html)

XLSX can be edited, XLS can not.

Try converting your data to XLSX and you should be able to edit the dataset in QGIS afterwards.

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  • what do you think the logic is, for not allowing editing for XLS?
    – ziggy
    Sep 25, 2016 at 21:10
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    XLS is binary and a closed format.
    – Nathan W
    Sep 26, 2016 at 0:04

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