Convert text files to excel

TXT is a file format that contains the text, organized in rows. Text files opposed binaries that contain data that is not intended for interpretation as a text (encoded sound or image). The text file can contain both formatted and unformatted text. Since the very simple text files, they are frequently used for storing data.

XLSX is a file format created with Microsoft Excel, version from 2007 and younger. This file is a spreadsheet. All data distributed document and stored in the cells. Each cell has a unique address, which is denoted by the letters and Arabic numerals. XLSX file format is based on the Open XML. To reduce the size of the file is compressed ZIP.

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Things You Should Know

• You can open a text or CSV File in Excel from the «File» menu as you would any other file.
• After opening the text or CSV file, you’ll go through the Text Import Wizard, which makes it easy to format your text into columns and rows.
• If you want to add a text file to an existing workbook, just select «From Text/CSV» or «From Text (Legacy) on the Data tab.

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   Open Excel. If you have a text or comma-separated values (CSV) file that that you want to save as an Excel workbook, you can easily open the file in Excel on Windows and macOS. Start by opening Excel, which will launch to the Open screen.

   • Opening the file as you would any other file will launch the Text Import Wizard, which helps you format the text for your worksheet.
   • If you already have Excel open, just click the File menu and select Open to get to the Open screen now.

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   Click Browse (Windows) or On My Mac (Mac). This opens your computer’s file browser.^[1]
   

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   Click the drop-down menu and select All Files (Windows only). This allows you to view all files instead of just those ending with Excel-specific formats.

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   Select your text file and click Open. You can choose any text file ending in .txt or .csv (comma separated values). Once you click Open, the Text Import Wizard» will expand containing a preview of your text file.

   • If you don’t see your text file, click the file format menu and select All Files or Text Files.^[2]
     

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   Choose whether the text file is Delimited or Fixed Width. In the «Original data type» section, choose either of the following:

   • Delimited text uses commas, tabs, or other characters to separate each field. This is common if you’re importing things like contact lists, addresses, and data you’ve exported from databases.
   • Fixed width contains text that’s aligned into columns with single spaces between each field. This is common if you’re working with a single-column list.

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   Check the box next to «My data has headers» (if your columns have headers). This tells Excel to format the first line as column headers rather than typical cell values.

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   Click Next in the Text Import window. This will take you to the next step, which varies depending on whether you’re working with delimited data or fixed width data.

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   Choose your delimiter preferences and click Next. If you chose Delimited as your data type, you’ll be asked to choose the character that separates your data (e.g., Tab, Semicolon, Comma, or Space).

   • Tab is checked by default. If you are not using tabs to separate data, uncheck this box. Otherwise, the wizard will automatically detect the spaces in your text as tabs and separated it into columns.
   • If you don’t see the character you need, select Other and type the character into the field.
   • Select «Treat consecutive delimiters as one» if the delimiter consists of more than one character between data fields or if you have multiple delimiter characters.
   • Optionally, you can select none of these options if you don’t want to separate any of the data entries into columns.

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   Adjust your Fixed Width preferences and click Next. If you selected Fixed width, use the on-screen instructions to adjust your line breaks in the Preview section.

   • To add a break line, click at any location.
   • Double-click a break line to delete it.
   • Drag any of the lines to move it.

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    Click Finish. Your text file is now imported into Excel. You can now edit the data as you would on a standard worksheet.

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    Save the file in the XLSX format. Now that you’ve imported your text file, you can easily save it as an Excel file. Just press Control + S (PC) or Command + S (Mac) on the keyboard to open the Save dialog, choose a file name and location, and click Save. The file will automatically save in Excel’s default format.

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   Open your Excel workbook. If you want to import a text file into a worksheet in an existing workbook, you can easily do so using Excel’s built-in data tools.

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   Click the Data tab at the top of Excel. You can find this tab above the toolbar ribbon at the top of your spreadsheet.

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   Click From Text/CSV or From Text on the toolbar. This button looks like a blank sheet icon with a tiny text document in front of it. The name varies slightly by version.

   • If you’re using Excel for macOS, the option may be called From Text (Legacy), depending on your version.^[3]
     

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   Select a text file and click Import. This can be any text file, including those which contain comma separated values (CSV). The selected file will open in the Text Import Wizard.

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   Choose whether the text file is Delimited or Fixed Width. In the «Original data type» section, choose either of the following:

   • Delimited text uses commas, tabs, or other characters to separate each field.
   • Fixed width contains text that’s aligned into columns with single spaces between each field.
   • Most text files contain delimited data. This means your data entries are separated by tabs, commas, or a different character, rather than fixed-width spaces with columns.

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   Check the box next to «My data has headers» (if your columns have headers). This tells Excel to format the first line as column headers rather than typical cell values.

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   Click Next in the Text Import window. This will take you to the next step, which varies depending on whether you’re working with delimited data or fixed width data.

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   Choose your delimiter preferences and click Next. If you chose Delimited as your data type, you’ll be asked to choose the character that separates your data (e.g., Tab, Semicolon, Comma, or Space).

   • Tab is checked by default. If you are not using tabs to separate data, uncheck this box. Otherwise, the wizard will automatically detect the spaces in your text as tabs and separated it into columns.
   • If you don’t see the character you need, select Other and type the character into the field.
   • Select «Treat consecutive delimiters as one» if the delimiter consists of more than one character between data fields or if you have multiple delimiter characters.
   • Optionally, you can select none of these options if you don’t want to separate any of the data entries into columns.

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   Adjust your Fixed Width preferences and click Next. If you selected Fixed width, use the on-screen instructions to adjust your line breaks in the Preview section.

   • To add a break line, click at any location.
   • Double-click a break line to delete it.
   • Drag any of the lines to move it.

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    Click Finish. This takes you back to the Import window, where you’ll be asked where you’d like to place the imported text.

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    Select a worksheet and click OK. The text file is now imported into your Excel worksheet. You can edit this data as you would any other Excel data, such as using it to create graphs or pivot tables.

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    Save the file. Now that you’ve imported your text file, you can save it in the Excel format. Just press Control + S (PC) or Command + S (Mac) on the keyboard to save your changes to the workbook you’ve opened, or click File > Save As to create a new file containing your data.

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TXT

From the 70’s to 2007 the open source .txt filename extension format commonly referred to plain text documents encoded using the ASCII character set. To support internationalization and localization, .txt text documents are today text files encoded using the UTF-8 or UTF-16LE standard which is a superset of the ASCII character set. Text documents of type .txt typically have minimal formatting for example no support for bold or italic characters or support for bullet points etc. This allows .txt documents to use minimum storage space and be platform independent as long as the operating system supports the underlying encoding character set used to create the .txt document. On windows .txt file support has existed since 1985 when Windows 1.0 was released and since then has been mostly associated with the notepad application on Microsoft Windows.

XLSX

The .xlsx is an open source filename extension format developed by Microsoft in collaboration with ISO/IEC and ECMA. It is part of the Open Document family of file formats. The .xlsx is associated with spreadsheet authoring applications particularly with Microsoft’s Office Excel 2007 and above. The format has existed since 2005 and is also supported by several other proprietary and open source spreadsheet authoring software other than Microsoft’s Office Excel. The xlsx format is the default filename extension for all spreadsheet documents produced using Microsoft Office Excel 2007 SP2 and above.

STEP 1

Select the document file in the TXT format to convert to the XLSX format, you can select a file from your computer or your Google Drive or Dropbox account.                            

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Choose the XLSX format from the drop-down list as the output format, and click the Convert button, you can convert up to 5 files at the same time and a maximum size of up to 300 MB.

STEP 3

Wait until your file is uploaded and converted into the XLSX document format, you can download the converted file up to a maximum of 5 times, and can also delete the file from the Download page.