Learn how to use Excel Power Query’s extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. If you can only read one tech story a day, ...

If you have data in delimited text files from other programs that you need to get into an Excel workbook, you can use the import wizard to import delimited text files and convert them into usable ...

A comma delimited file is one where each value in the file is separated by a comma. Also known as a Comma Separated Value file, a comma delimited file is a standard file type that a number of ...

I have extracted a database into a bam file that is separated by tabs. Reading it from the terminal is proving itself to be a very difficult task. I was instructed to transfer the information through ...

Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether. We don’t open foreign files with Microsoft Excel—or do we? When importing a .txt or ...

In my last article for Linux Journal's web edition, I discussed a web-based program that queried an SQL database and output a native Excel file. That article was based on a program I wrote for a ...

Microsoft Excel has lots of features that can help you manage your data. For example, say you have a hundred cells, which are each filled with a first and last name. You can use the "Text to Columns" ...