st: how to insheet an excel spreadsheet into panel format

["Glenn Wingard" <gwingard@hotmail.com>]

This may be an elementary question, but i'm completely new to stata and hope 
someone can help.
I have a data-set in excel which lists countries in the first column and 
years in the first row like so:

Country Name	1960	1961	1962	1963
Afghanistan	   4.13	   4.45	     4.88    9.17
Albania	                  ..	    ..	        ..	..
Algeria	            38.75    45.90   19.65    24.50
American Samoa	    ..	    ..	         ..	   ..
Andorra	                ..	 ..	      ..	..
Angola	                 ..	 ..	      ..	..
Antigua           	..	..	      ..	..
Argentina	    7.60     5.99	4.69	7.89
Armenia	                ..	..	      ..	..
Aruba	                 ..	  ..	       ..	 ..
Australia	     14.24   15.79	14.74	16.84
Austria	23.69	  23.39   24.25	     24.48     ..

I want to insheet this into stata in a panel format like so:

country         	year	POP	openc
Aruba	               1960	-999	-999
Aruba	               1961	-999	-999
Aruba	               1962	-999	-999
Aruba	               1963	-999	-999
Andorra	               1960	-999	-999
Andorra	               1961	-999	-999
Andorra	              1962	-999	-999
Afghanistan	     1960	-999	-999
Afghanistan	     1961	-999	-999
Afghanistan	     1962	-999	-999
Afghanistan	    1963	-999	-999

Is there any way that this can be done?  Any help would be greatly 
appreciated!!!!!
Thank you.


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