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- From: peterj@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Peter Westley)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:08:37 GMT
- Subject: Re: HELP: ASCII <--> Excel 4.0
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- Kenneth R Aron (kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
- : 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?
-
- Yep it's easy - select the column of data after opening the ASCII text file,
- then choose Data:Parse... - this allows you to parse each cell and break it
- into multiple columns.
-
- Enjoy :-)
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