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Microsoft Excel has new functions for importing text files and CSV data

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Microsoft Excel’s new import functions make handling numbers easier

Excel now supports IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV functions that load external text and CSV files as dynamic arrays, making it ...
Forbes

Your Best Bet On Prompt Engineering Practices When Leveraging Imported Text In Generative AI

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing coverage of ...

How to import and export Markdown with Apple Notes in iOS 26

Apple Notes iOS 26 iPhones can import and export Markdown-formatted documents, offering an easy way to move plain text to ...
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Microsoft introduces new IMPORTTEXT, IMPORTCSV functions in Excel

WASHINGOTN, 18th January, 2026 (WAM) -- Microsoft has added two new import functions — IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV — to Excel, aimed at simplifying the process of importing data from text and CSV files ...
Ars Technica

Excel: Importing multiple text files with same fixed-width column settings

I've got a bunch of 50MB text files (that I have to segment because of Excel's 65k limit), which I want to import into Excel and convert their data in to columns. All of the files have the same format ...