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.

menu or click the Open icon, select Text Files as your ‘Files of type’, and select your file. Excel will open the Text Import Wizard to walk you through the delimiter options.

Even importing data can be a complicated process. But Microsoft Excel’s mobile app allows you to take a picture of a table and paste the information directly into your spreadsheet.

Twitter used to provide CSV exports of your data, now it's all in machine-readable JSON. How can you use it in Excel?

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 ...