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You can have multiple areas of each kind on a spreadsheet. The only limitation is that if you refer to a person, you must do that in a row lower than where that person is described. Likewise, if you refer to a marriage, you must do that in a row lower than where the marriage is described. References to enclosed_by places must already exist in the database, or be defined in rows above in the spreadsheet.
If you use the 'grampsid' as a way to assign specific ids, be ''very'' careful when importing to a current database. Any data you enter will '''overwrite''' the data assigned to that grampsid. If you use ids in the place, person, marriage, or family columns that are surrounded by brackets (for example '[i0001]'), the values you use will be interpreted as grampsids as well. If you are adding '''new''' items, you are encouraged to avoid use of the bracket format or grampsid columns, so as to avoid accidentally overwriting your data. If you are mixing the bracket (or grampsid) methods with plain references (no brackets), put the plain referenced data after the bracket referenced data.
If you are entering the data in a text file, and if you wish to have a comma inside one of the values, like "Clinton, Co., MO" then you need place the entire value in double-quotes and put the first double-quote right after the preceding comma. For example:
<pre>
Place, Title, Name, Type
[P0001], Michigan, Michigan, State
L1, Canada, Canada, Country
L2, USA, USA, Country
Sally, Tester, 01/26/1973, L1
Person, Firstname, Surname, Birthdate, Birth place idp1, Tom, Smith, 22 Jan, 1970, [P0001]
p2, Mary, Jones
p3, Jonnie, Smith
p5, James, Loucher
p6, Penny, Armbruster
p7[P0002], Tim, Sparklet
Marriage, Husband, Wife
m1, p3
m1, p6
m2, p7[P0002]
</pre>
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