@acer 

Countries.xlsx

Ribbiting_Disparities_29.mw

The sheet I'm importing from is "All Countries".

Maple version 2025.1

@acer 

The import command was:

Data := ExcelTools:-Import("Countries.xlsx", "All Countries", output = DataFrame, labeltype = string);

Thanx for the hint about conversion=String. That got rid of the error message.

However, the following command:

Datatypes(DataNew);

yields:

Datatypes(SubsDatatype(Data, "UN Region", string, conversion = String))

when I was hoping to see that the datatype for the first column is now string.

As you may have guessed, I am very new to Maple...and it is unlike almost every other piece of software I've ever used. So I have little or no "feel" for how it works. That last output is of course correct...but it's just echoing back the definition of DataNew. 

How do I force it to display the actual information?

@acer Thanx!! I'll check them out.