When Excel encounters the text qualifier character, all of the text that follows that character and precedes the next occurrence of that character is imported as one value, even if the text contains a delimiter character. Text qualifier Select the character that encloses values in your text file. Treat consecutive delimiters as one Select this check box if your data contains a delimiter of more than one character between data fields or if your data contains multiple custom delimiters. These options are not available if your data type is Fixed width. If the character is not listed, select the Other check box, and then type the character in the box that contains the cursor. Step 2 of 3 (Delimited data)ĭelimiters Select the character that separates values in your text file. Preview of file This box displays the text as it will appear when it is separated into columns on the worksheet. For example, if your computer is set to use character set 1251 (Cyrillic, Windows), but you know that the file was produced by using character set 1252 (Western European, Windows), you should set File Origin to 1252. If you know that the text file was created by using a different character set than the character set that you are using on your computer, you should change this setting to match that character set. In most cases, you can leave this setting at its default. Start import at row Type or select a row number to specify the first row of the data that you want to import.įile origin Select the character set that is used in the text file. If all of the items in each column are the same length, select Fixed width.

Original data type If items in the text file are separated by tabs, colons, semicolons, spaces, or other characters, select Delimited. Go to the Data tab > Get External Data > From Text. Then, in the Import Text File dialog box, double-click the text file that you want to import, and the Text Import Wizard dialog will open.

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