Transferring Data Into Excel

Click on the 'Start' button on the bottom left of the screen. Select 'Programs > Excel'.
On the Excel menu bar, click 'File > Open'.
If you placed the '[your filename].TXT' file on the desktop, the 'Open' window will have the 'Desktop' icon on the left side of the open window. Click on 'Desktop'.
Click on the triangle beside the 'Files of type' dialog box. Select: 'All Files (*.*)'.
Double click on the '[your filename].TXT' file.
The 'Text Import Wizard' box will appear. Check 'Delimited'.
Click 'Next'.
Check the 'Comma' box. The 'Tab' box can stay checked.
Scroll down past the header information to view the data being imported.
Click 'Finish'.
The '[your filename].TXT' file should come into the Excel program with the data in separate columns
Click 'File > Save As' on the menu bar.
Give the file a useful name (date, fire, and so on) with an '.XLS' extension.
When the data has been saved in Excel, the '[your filename].TXT' file should be saved as the orginal data.

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