The purpose of the application is to convert an excel file with multiple sheets which has latitutde and longitudes as fields in them and need to be converted to a shapefile combining all sheets together. The output for this is named as "pointxlsOUT.shp" in this project 1. Select a Excel file which has sheets with fields such as longitude = "long",latitude = "lat". 2. Field storenum which you can see in the is used as a join field here. 3. Select the workspace where temporary files will be created. 4. Select the workspace for the shapefile to be created. For the tool: In the input parameters: First input parameter is to select the excel sheet. Second parameter is to select the workspace where the output file "pointxlsOUT.shp" will be created