[Ham-Computers] RE: importing to excel

[Don]

thanks Aaron
i think this will work

Don
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)" <aaron.hsu at nbcuni.com>
To: "'I>Ham-Computers'" <Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: <wxfreqrs at cableone.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 8:07 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] RE: importing to excel


> Don,
>
> If the data in Word is already in some sort of "tabular" form (a table or
> delimiter seperated), then importing into Excel should not be a problem. 
> If
> the data is in a Word table, then you can directly copy and paste the 
> table
> into Excel and it will transform the table entries to cells.  If the data 
> is
> delimited (such as commas or tabs), you can convert the data to a table
> using the "text to table" tool and then copy-n-paste to Excel.  Or, you 
> can
> delete everything in the document except the data to be imported, save the
> data as a text only file, then import it to Excel by specifying that you
> want to open a .TXT file and selecting the file.  It will then 
> automatically
> bring up the text import wizard and ask you how you want the data 
> imported.
> Above all else, the data needs to be in some recognizable format for Excel
> to import it properly - the best "text" format for this purpose is "tab" 
> or
> "comma" delimited (fields seperated by tabs or commas)
>
> BTW, I'm not a Word or Excel "power-user", so there may be an easier way 
> to
> do this.  These just happen to be way I would to it.
>
> 73,
>
>  - Aaron, NN6O
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don
> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 8:51 AM
> To: Ham-Computers
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] importing to excel
>
>
> HI the group
>
> I have office 2000 on my puter
> excel and word work great
>
> NOW
> can I import to excel numbers from word
>
> say a Lat/Long of 30.32N and 88.53W  or will i have to import them 
> manually
> into the cells i want in excel
>
> if not clear i will answer ???
>
>
> Don
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