Hello

I intend to use a dataset multiple times. After encoding all my string variables, I exported my dataset in excel. I have labes in my dataset instead of values i.e males and females rather than 0 and 1.
The problem with this is that each time I use this dataset, I have to encode all the variables again. But if I keep only values, I lose the labels attached to it.
What would be the appropriate way to be able to preserve both values and labels?

I am naive to Stata, any help would be highly appreciated.

Thank you