Load the Team Data

In this task, you add your teams to the tournament by loading them from an Excel spreadsheet, an Access database, or a comma-separated (CSV) text file.

You can use the Load Team feature to add all of your teams to the tournament, or to add to the teams that you typed in or loaded from another team data file. And, you can always come back to this feature to load more teams. The DI Scoring Program always adds loaded teams to the existing team list; it never overwrites or replaces teams.

Before you load teams:

• Verify that your data file is formatted correctly for the DI Scoring Program. (See Prepare the Team Data.)
• If you are loading from an Excel spreadsheet or an Access database, you must configure the ODBC driver in your computer's operating system before you load the teams. (See Configure the ODBC Driver.)

To load teams from a file:

1. In the Tournament Summary Window, from the File menu, select Load Teams.

   Or, click the Load teams button in the toolbar, or press Ctrl+L.

   (This step is not necessary if you are defining the tournament for the first time.)
2. In the Select file type dialog box, click to indicate the file type.
3. In the File to Load from browser, locate your file, or type the full path to the file in the File name text box, and then click Open.

The DI Scoring Program displays a message that tells how many teams were loaded. Then it closes and reopens the tournament, which now contains all of the loaded teams.