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Importing Text File Data into Excel where records span several row
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Wondering what the solution would be to importing .txt file data into excel or access when you are importing data spread over several lines. Here's a practical scenario 1 24582 GENERAL FRED 13/06/06 8:45:08 Sales ~Rounding -1 -0.01 0.01 0.00 BOUQUETS T/T WHT 9pk 1 3.17 3.17 0.00 2 24583 GENERAL FRED 13/06/06 8:45:56 Sales KP 24 MEDICATED FOAM 100ML 1 13.59 13.59 0.00 NAPHCON A EYE DRP 15ML 1 1 8.99 8.99 0.00 Field Listing as follows. ItemsSold |SaleNo |Customer |Salesperson|Date|Time|TransactionType |ProductDescription |Qty| CostExGST |CostIncGST |GST |
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Importing Text File Data into Excel where records span several row
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*Razorback76* ha scritto: Hi, Wondering what the solution would be to importing .txt file data into excel or access when you are importing data spread over several lines. Here's a practical scenario 1 24582 GENERAL FRED 13/06/06 8:45:08 Sales ~Rounding -1 -0.01 0.01 0.00 BOUQUETS T/T WHT 9pk 1 3.17 3.17 0.00 2 24583 GENERAL FRED 13/06/06 8:45:56 Sales KP 24 MEDICATED FOAM 100ML 1 13.59 13.59 0.00 NAPHCON A EYE DRP 15ML 1 1 8.99 8.99 0.00 Field Listing as follows. ItemsSold |SaleNo |Customer |Salesperson|Date|Time|TransactionType ProductDescription |Qty| CostExGST |CostIncGST |GST If (if) I understood your problem, you can simply open the file in Excel (menu File, Open, in "Files of type" choose Text Files, then select your file and click Open): the Text Import Wizard will help you in 3 steps... -- (I'm not sure of names of menues, option and commands, because translating from the Italian version of Excel...) Hope I helped you. Thanks in advance for your feedback. Ciao Franz Verga from Italy |
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Importing Text File Data into Excel where records span several
unfortunately it doesn't help.
This is one of those common cases where you have a linked table in a database with sub-ordinates listed in the same column as applicable. e.g. Text file appears like the simplified example below... Heading{Enter} SubHeading{Enter} Content {TAB} Value {Enter} Content {TAB} Value {Enter} Content {TAB} Value {Enter} where what you want in the subsequent spreadsheet is ..... Heading | SubHeading | Content | Value | Heading | SubHeading | Content | Value | Heading | SubHeading | Content | Value | Heading | SubHeading | Content | Value | Conversion to this format ensures a easy transition later to excels Pivot Tables and the wonderous calculations they can perform etc. Does that make my problem a little clearer? Steve "Franz Verga" wrote: Nel post *Razorback76* ha scritto: Hi, Wondering what the solution would be to importing .txt file data into excel or access when you are importing data spread over several lines. Here's a practical scenario 1 24582 GENERAL FRED 13/06/06 8:45:08 Sales ~Rounding -1 -0.01 0.01 0.00 BOUQUETS T/T WHT 9pk 1 3.17 3.17 0.00 2 24583 GENERAL FRED 13/06/06 8:45:56 Sales KP 24 MEDICATED FOAM 100ML 1 13.59 13.59 0.00 NAPHCON A EYE DRP 15ML 1 1 8.99 8.99 0.00 Field Listing as follows. ItemsSold |SaleNo |Customer |Salesperson|Date|Time|TransactionType ProductDescription |Qty| CostExGST |CostIncGST |GST If (if) I understood your problem, you can simply open the file in Excel (menu File, Open, in "Files of type" choose Text Files, then select your file and click Open): the Text Import Wizard will help you in 3 steps... -- (I'm not sure of names of menues, option and commands, because translating from the Italian version of Excel...) Hope I helped you. Thanks in advance for your feedback. Ciao Franz Verga from Italy |
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