Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether. We don’t open foreign files with Microsoft Excel—or do we? When importing a .txt or ...

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 ...

If you often work with data that starts life as a text file or CSV, Microsoft Excel now has new built-in tools that simplify how that information gets pulled into a spreadsheet. The update introduces ...

I'm importing a lot of comma delimited text files into Excel - because they all have the exact same formatting, is there a way to tell Excel to process all of them the same way? (ie, what fields to ...