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How To Import A Delimited File Into Excel: Instructions Things You'll Need

The document provides instructions for importing a tab-delimited file into Microsoft Excel in order to analyze and present data stored in the file. It explains that tab-delimited files use tabs to separate columns of data arranged in rows, allowing the columns to line up neatly when imported. Following 5 steps, it describes how to open the delimited file in Excel, select the file type and delimiter, assign data formats, and save the resulting spreadsheet to manipulate and study the data using Excel's tools.

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How To Import A Delimited File Into Excel: Instructions Things You'll Need

The document provides instructions for importing a tab-delimited file into Microsoft Excel in order to analyze and present data stored in the file. It explains that tab-delimited files use tabs to separate columns of data arranged in rows, allowing the columns to line up neatly when imported. Following 5 steps, it describes how to open the delimited file in Excel, select the file type and delimiter, assign data formats, and save the resulting spreadsheet to manipulate and study the data using Excel's tools.

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How to Import a Delimited File into Excel


By an eHow Contributor

Whether they are created manually or exported from another software application, delimited files
are a commonly used to store important data. The trouble with data is that it is not very valuable
unless you have some way to manipulate and study it. While delimited files are a nice way to
store data, it’s not very practical to try to study the data in the raw form of these files. Importing
the delimited file into Microsoft Excel will allow you to use all the tools of Excel to analyze your
data and to present the findings of your analysis in a clear manner.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions
Things You'll Need:
 Microsoft Excel

1. 1
Choose “Open” from Microsoft Excel’s File menu, and navigate to the folder that
contains your delimited file. Make sure that you have chosen the option to view all file
types. If you don’t do this, you will not be able to see your file in the folder. Double-click
on the file name to open it. Excel will automatically enter “Text Import Wizard” mode.

2. 2

Choose “Delimited” as the file type that best describes your data on the first screen of the
Text Import Wizard. Then click “Next” to go to the next screen.

3. 3

Select the delimiter that is used in your delimited file. If you didn’t know what the
delimiter was before beginning the file import, you can usually scan the data and
determine which character is being used. In our example, the file is comma-delimited.
After selecting the delimiter, click “Next” to proceed.

4. 4
Assign the data format to each field that you are importing. The default data format is
“General,” and this is the format you should keep unless any of your data fields contains
dates or consists of data that you want to keep as text. Click “Next” to finish the import
after you have finished assigning data formats to all fields.

5. 5

Save the resulting spreadsheet as an Excel file. Now you are ready to manipulate and
study your data with the tools in Excel.

Read more: How to Import a Delimited File into Excel | eHow.com


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