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If you’ve worked with Excel long enough, you’ve probably needed to get data into Excel so that you can analyze it, or maybe create a chart. Where does this data come from? It might come from a database or some other program, or even the web. And it can come in a variety of forms.

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Whatever the case, I can guarantee you the last thing you’d ever want to do is retype it, so that option is out unless you really love typing and have tons of extra time on your hands. And copying from another program or from the web and pasting directly into a cell in a workbook might leave you with nightmarish looking results I’ve seen this, believe me.

Go to the Data tab Get External Data From Text. Then, in the Import Text File dialog box, double-click the text file that you want to import, and the Text Import Wizard dialog will open. Original data type If items in the text file are separated by tabs, colons, semicolons, spaces,. Office for Mac with Office 365, gives you power and flexibility to get things done virtually from anywhere. Find the right Office for you. Learn how Microsoft uses ads to create a more customized online experience tailored for you.

Luckily for you, there’s a much better way to get that data into Excel. Importing! Yes, importing is not just for purveyors of fine art or exotic foods.

When you use the Text Import Wizard, you don’t open your data source in its native program. You point Excel’s Text Import Wizard to a file, and the wizard leads you through a few steps where it looks at the rows of data in the source file and makes suggestions based on the layout of the file. Of course, you’re allowed to fine tune or override these suggestions so that the data comes into Excel just the way you want.

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In this file, the four pieces of information for each employee are separated (also known as “delimited”) by a comma. The first row of the file is the column names, which are also separated by commas.

The rows of information look just like this in the text file:

Start the Text Import Wizard

To import the contents of the file, select an empty cell in Excel — this can be in a new workbook, a new worksheet in an existing workbook, or in an existing worksheet. The wizard isn’t picky!

Now, click the Data tab, and in the Get External Data group, click From Text.

This starts the Text Import Wizard. Go find your file, and click Open. Notice how the Delimited button is already selected?

My data certainly is delimited by those commas, so I’ll click Next. The default delimiting character in Excel is the tab character, so it’s pre-selected here in step 2. Notice how, with the tab character as the delimiter, the preview doesn’t look right? So I see I need to change that from Tab to Comma.

Now I’ve selected Comma instead. There, see how the preview changes and looks right now?

I’ll click Next to go to the third and last step of the wizard. I can select each column and, if I want, change its data type so that it has a format I prefer or a right or left margin. But all of these columns look fine, so I’ll click Finish.

Now, Excel asks me if I want to import the data right here in the current cell or create a new worksheet. That’s nice, because what if I had selected a cell that contained data I didn’t want to overwrite? Anyway, I’m in blank cell in a new worksheet, so I’ll accept Existing Worksheet and cell =$A$1, and click OK.

And here’s my imported data! As a plus, the Text Import Wizard (in most cases) optimizes the width of the columns to fit the data so you don’t have to.

— Gary Willoughby

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Definition

Loads and parses a text file as a new workbook with a single sheet that contains the parsed text-file data.

Parameters

Filename: StringString

Required String. Specifies the file name of the text file to be opened and parsed.

Origin: ObjectObject

Optional Object. Specifies the origin of the text file. Can be one of the following XlPlatform constants: xlMacintosh, xlWindows, or xlMSDOS. Additionally, this could be an integer representing the code page number of the desired code page. For example, '1256' would specify that the encoding of the source text file is Arabic (Windows). If this argument is omitted, the method uses the current setting of the File Origin option in the Text Import Wizard.

StartRow: ObjectObject

Optional Object. The row number at which to start parsing text. The default value is 1.

DataType: ObjectObject

Optional Object. Specifies the column format of the data in the file. Can be one of the following XlTextParsingType constants: xlDelimited or xlFixedWidth. If this argument is not specified, Microsoft Excel attempts to determine the column format when it opens the file.

TextQualifier: XlTextQualifierXlTextQualifier

Optional XlTextQualifier. Specifies the text qualifier. Can be one of these XlTextQualifier constants.xlTextQualifierDoubleQuotedefaultxlTextQualifierNonexlTextQualifierSingleQuote

ConsecutiveDelimiter: ObjectObject

Optional Object. True to have consecutive delimiters considered one delimiter. The default is False.

Tab: ObjectObject

Optional Object. True to have the tab character be the delimiter (DataType must be xlDelimited). The default value is False.

Semicolon: ObjectObject

Optional Object. True to have the semicolon character be the delimiter (DataType must be xlDelimited). The default value is False.

Comma: ObjectObject

Optional Object. True to have the comma character be the delimiter (DataType must be xlDelimited). The default value is False.

Space: ObjectObject

Optional Object. True to have the space character be the delimiter (DataType must be xlDelimited). The default value is False.

Other: ObjectObject

Optional Object. True to have the character specified by the OtherChar argument be the delimiter (DataType must be xlDelimited). The default value is False.

OtherChar: ObjectObject

Optional Object (required if Other is True). Specifies the delimiter character when Other is True. If more than one character is specified, only the first character of the string is used; the remaining characters are ignored.

FieldInfo: ObjectObject

Optional XlColumnDataType. An array containing parse information for individual columns of data. The interpretation depends on the value of DataType. When the data is delimited, this argument is an array of two-element arrays, with each two-element array specifying the conversion options for a particular column. The first element is the column number (1-based), and the second element is one of theXlColumnDataType constants specifying how the column is parsed.xlGeneralFormat GeneralxlTextFormat TextxlMDYFormat MDY datexlDMYFormat DMY datexlYMDFormat YMD datexlMYDFormat MYD datexlDYMFormat DYM datexlYDMFormat YDM datexlEMDFormat EMD datexlSkipColumn Skip ColumnYou can use xlEMDFormat only if you have installed and selected Taiwanese language support. The xlEMDFormat constant specifies that Taiwanese era dates are being used.The column specifiers can be in any order. If there's no column specifier for a particular column in the input data, the column is parsed with the General setting.NotesIf you specify that a column is to be skipped, you must explicitly state the type for all remaining columns or the data will not parse correctly.If there is a recognizable date in the data, the cell will be formatted as a date in the worksheet even if the setting for the column is General. Additionally, if you specify one of the above date formats for a column and the data does not contain a recognized date, then the cell format in the worksheet will be General.If the source data has fixed-width columns, the first element in each two-element array specifies the position of the starting character in the column (as an integer; character 0 (zero) is the first character). The second element in the two-element array specifies the parse option for the column as a number between 0 and 9, as listed in the preceding table.

TextVisualLayout: ObjectObject

Optional Object. The visual layout of the text.

DecimalSeparator: ObjectObject

Optional Object. The decimal separator that Microsoft Excel uses when recognizing numbers. The default setting is the system setting.

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ThousandsSeparator: ObjectObject