Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether.

To import data from a text file into Microsoft Excel, follow this step-by-step guide: First, create a blank spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel and ensure you have the .txt file on your PC.

Step 2 when importing data is the command “Data -‘ From Picture -‘ Picture from File”. On the right side you can check the data before importing or insert it directly into the spreadsheet.

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 click "CSV" to export the file into a comma separated text file, or you can click "XLS" to export the data to a file you can open with Excel without importing the file into the application.

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it.