Importing data with the Data Import Wizard

Salesforce provides two basic built-in ways to import data into your organization:

  • Data Import Wizard (in-browser wizard)
  • Data Loader (external app)

To access the Data Import Wizard, navigate to Setup | Integrations | Data Import Wizard, which brings you to the following page:

With this tool, you can import up to 50,000 records at a time and easily configure the mapping between the imported file and the objects' fields on Salesforce.

Before importing anything, you will need to load a file in CSV format (up to 100 MB in size).

You can extract a file in this format from any Salesforce report by specifying ...

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