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.

You have a table on paper but need the data listed in Excel? There's a simple trick for importing.

One way to turn a CSV file into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is to open the document in Excel, but with this method you won't see the text-import wizard that allows you to specify how Excel ...

Microsoft announced this week that's it's now possible for Office 365 users to import table data from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program.

If you come across a table on the web or in another source that you want to import into Excel, there's an import feature that does the work for you.

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

And while you can import CSV files into Excel and work with them there, it can get confusing—you have to keep track of which Excel features work in CSV files, and which do not.

A CSV (comma-separated values) file is a text file in which information is separated by commas. CSV files are most commonly encountered in spreadsheets and databases. You can use a CSV file to ...