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A product with the code '00123' and a product with the code '123'. If you manage them as separate items, you must not treat ...

Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether. We don’t open foreign files with Microsoft Excel—or do we? When importing a .txt or ...

The SQLite database-management system offers many of the features found in large-scale commercial database software, including the ability to import Comma-Separated Variable (CSV) files. Many ...

In this video, we cover the new IMPORTCSV and IMPORTTEXT functions in Excel, which simplify importing data into the application. The IMPORTCSV function allows importing CSV files using just the file ...

In the second part of this series, Brien shows how to import a .CSV file into a PowerShell array, including two methods for zooming in on just the specific data you need and filtering out the rest. In ...

A CSV downloaded from Google Sheets via 'File → Download → Comma separated values (.csv)'. When opened in Excel, the headings became unreadable characters like '逡ｪ蜿ｷ'. In this case, the file is not ...

For the business person on the go, there are times when you are away from your computer and still need to access your contacts from Microsoft's Outlook. It's possible to export all of your contacts ...

Each of these CSV files has four columns: FirstName,LastName,Title,HireDate. At the end of each month, management wants a report of who was hired that month. To find this information, you must read ...