Chapter 31. Importing Text or Microsoft Word Data into Excel

  • Jeff Sagarin, the creator of the USA Today basketball and football ratings, and I have developed a system to rate NBA players for the Dallas Mavericks team and its owner Mark Cuban. Every day during the season, Jeff’s FORTRAN program produces a multitude of information, including ratings for each Dallas Maverick lineup during each game. Unfortunately, Jeff’s program produces this information in the form of a text file. How can I import the data into Excel so that I can analyze the data?

We often receive data in a Microsoft Word document or in a text file (a file with the .txt extension) that we need to import into Excel for numerical analysis. To import a Word file into Excel, you ...

Get Microsoft® Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial