To import data from a text file into Microsoft Excel, follow this step-by-step guide: First, create a blank spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel and ensure you have the .txt file on your PC.

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 ...

Part Two of this three-part article covers how to import your Outlook contact list—the CSV file—into Excel, then how to refine, maintain, and manage that database so, in Part Three, you can ...