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- From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
- Subject: Re: HELP: ASCII <--> Excel 4.0
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:49:09 GMT
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- kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth R Aron) writes:
-
- >HELP!
-
- >I need to take and ASCII data file and import it into Excel 4.0
- >so I can graph it. The problem is that there are 200 entries in
- >the file in a 5x40 grid. When I import this into Excel, they are
- >all put in the same column. I need to have each 'column' of data
- >in a physically separate column from the others.
-
- >I have: 6.543 3.324 4.825 3.118 9.021
-
- >I need: 6.543|3.324|4.825|3.118|9.021
-
- >Is there a way to do this w\0 typing everything over again?
-
- Just use DATA -> PARSE. As long as each block of data is in the same
- set of columns in each record this will do what you want.
-
- Joe Morris / MITRE
-