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Excel 2010 open semi-colon separated file

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    Excel 2010 open semi-colon separated file

    Before excel 2010, all I had to do is open excel, select OPEN, choose the file, and excel would prompt on the format type with options before opening. I could choose comas, tabs, spaces, semi-colons, or anything I wanted. It would then just work. All was well.

    Where the heck are these options in excel 2010. I open excel, select TXT file type, and it just opens without prompting format. I've tried other format selections without luck. The data comes in all combined in rows. The columns are not created.

    I use to do this a lot. Something is much different.

    thanks in advance.

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    Re: Excel 2010 open semi-colon separated file

    i think this is what you want..
    -open excel ->go to DATA tab -> get external data choose "From text" -> import then next-> delimeted -> choose comas, tabs, spaces, semi-colons, or anything you wanted..
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    Re: Excel 2010 open semi-colon separated file

    Thank you. That worked. Why did they change that? DANG!

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    Re: Excel 2010 open semi-colon separated file

    lol, that's life. always changing.

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