Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether.

If you have a list of items in a text file and you want to import data from a text file into Microsoft Excel, you can do that without writing them manually. An option in Excel allows users to import ...

If a program can output a delimited text file (I’ll get to what that means in a minute), Excel can turn it into a reasonable table. Of course, the text has to be properly prepared. Every line in that ...

The CSV file extension appears on text documents that contain comma-separated values. Like spreadsheet data, each line in a CSV file separates into individual values that correspond with the cells in ...

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Excel's Import From Text function takes lists of text and processes them into spreadsheet data. The process works using delimiters -- special characters that denote where the beginning and end of each ...

I have an application which generates large tab-delimited text files, some over 200k lines.<BR><BR>At the end of the data generation, there is an option to auto-launch an excel file to process that ...

Q: When I import files into Excel, I see these narrow boxes appear in some of my cells. I might also see some other strange characters. What are these and how do I remove them? A: If you work with ...