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Microsoft® Excel® 2010: Data Analysis and Business Modeling
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Microsoft® Excel® 2010: Data Analysis and Business Modeling

by Wayne L. Winston
January 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
720 pages
23h 29m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 38. Importing Data from a Text File or Document

Question answered in this chapter:

  • How can I import data from a text file into Excel so that I can analyze it?

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. Jeff’s program produces this information in the form of a text file. In this chapter, I show you how you can import a text file into Microsoft Excel to use it for data analysis.

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