Importing data into Excel from other sources can result in long, messy strings of text you need to parse. We'll show you how.

You can open the file in Excel, or you can import the data using an Excel wizard. The two most common text file formats you’ll work with are .txt and .csv, where .csv stands for comma separated ...

Step 1 when importing data into Excel by photo is to take a photo of the table. It is better not to include surrounding text. The image section in this example is too large.

Excel's Import From Text function takes lists of text and processes them into spreadsheet data. The process works using delimiters -- special characters that denote where the beginning and end of ...

The Text Import Wizard will be displayed on the screen. Delimit the Data Click on the radio button labeled Delimited to get rid of TAB characters then click Next.

Importing data to an Excel spreadsheet using your phone camera is simple. First, download the Excel app ... How to import text into a Word document with your phone’s camera.