I have tried to upload an excel spreadsheet but I get a column with "invalid\_the\_geometry" and of course "the\_geometry" column unpopulated. The result of the spreadsheet I am working with comes from a cvs file downloaded from a Fusion Table map from Google. I assume there is a hierarchy for the columns to respect, but uploading KML files I never had any problem. 

How do I make an Excel file ready for cartodb?

I am trying to upload lines.