How to Use Excel to Parse Text. Computer programmers often use parsing programs to convert text into formats that other applications can use. Parsers split items in a text string into separate fields.

I would like to take an existing text file (approx 4 megs in size) and manipulate it with VB or VBA (from inside Access in that case) and then ideally place it inside a table format, at the very ...

To import data from a text file into Microsoft Excel, follow this step-by-step guide: First, create a blank spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel and ensure you have the .txt file on your PC.