I occasionally need to transfer data from Excel to a SharePoint list. In case there is a mistake, you can set it manually in the Separator drop-down list.* This is an outdated blog post and no longer maintained * In Google Sheets, the separator is automatically detected. The result is the same as in Excel: All values have split into Columns A–E. Then, select Column A (by clicking on the letter A in the column heading), and in the Menu, go to Data > Split text to columns. First, repeat the first three steps from the previous section to paste data from the text editor to Google Sheets. You can also copy and paste CSV data into columns in Google Sheets. Click Finish to complete the wizard.Īs a result, values from Column A have split into Columns A–E. By default, all columns have a General format. In the Wizard Step 3, you can format columns as General, Text, or Date.In the Wizard Step 2, choose Comma as delimiter and click Next.Īs you can see in the Data preview, values are split into columns based on a comma as a delimiter.Select Column A (by clicking on letter A in the column heading), and in the Ribbon, go to Data > Text to Columns.Now open your Excel file, right-click cell A1, and choose Paste (or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + V).(1) Select all data in the file (use keyboard shortcut CTRL + A), (2) right-click the selected text, and (3) choose Copy. Data in CSV have comma as a column separator, and every row is in the new line.Navigate to the folder with your CSV file, then (1) right-click the CSV file, (2) click Open with, and (3) choose Notepad.One way to convert a CSV file to Excel (.xlsx) is to use the Text Import Wizard.Īnother option, described below, is to open a CSV file with Notepad, copy and paste all data in one column in Excel, and the use the Text to Columns functionality to split data into columns. This tutorial demonstrates how to paste CSV data into columns in Excel and Google Sheets.

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