Hi, just want to report that gretl 1.8.7 just did an impressive job in importing data from an excel sheet. (why impressive? Because monthly date strings were in an abbreviated German format and the variable names included long expressions with non-ascii characters. Gretl auto-detected everything and the import went fine without any user input.) I also like the new 'variable attribute' dialog feature of browsing through the variables w/o close-select-open-edit-close... cycle! thanks for 1.8.7, sven