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Default Importing a Text File Into 1 Column

When you do the import, you should be asked to select either delimited or
fixed width.

you may want to go with fixed width, though you then risk cutting individual
words in half. May be easier than the alternative.

"Ralph" wrote:

hi,

i have a massive text file that is nothing more than a series of words
separated by commas, i.e.

dog, cat, ball, clouds, rain

there are probably 20k to 30k entries ...

is there a way i can import this file into excel so that these words are
stacked in 1 column?? i am doing it the file-import way but it pulls only so
many into 1 row, and then i have to copy-paste-transpose, etc... it will take
me 5 years to do it this way lol

PLEASE HELP!

THANKS!!