If you have data in delimited text files from other programs that you need to get into an Excel workbook, you can use the import wizard to import delimited text files and convert them into usable ...

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 ...

Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...

Excel’s Text functions are a major time saver if your job entails managing massive data, especially data that’s imported from other sources. Fortunately, all ASCII data is easily imported, but the ...

The SUMIFS function works in a similar way with text as with numbers, but there are two key differences. First, text in Excel ...