Convert TXT to Excel

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• Can run in GUI mode, Step by Step, just a few mouse clicks.
• Can run in Command line, for Scheduled Tasks and Streams.
• Convert files locally and privately, avoid uploading large TXT file(s) to online services.
• Support Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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Convert TXT to Excel

Choose TXT file -> Set Excel file -> Convert TXT to Excel

“Start a New Convert” for “TXT to Excel”.

Select From “File” “TXT” To “File” “Excel”.

1. Open source TXT file.

Support large TXT file ( > 4GB ).

Don’t worry about the delimiter, DataFileConverter will automatically determine the delimiter, includes comma, tab, colon, semicolon, pipe, hash (octothorpe), slash, asterisk, white space, and you can also enter a delimiter.

Source TXT file’s content is like this:

2. Config target Excel file.

3. Set rows options.

4. Convert TXT to Excel.

After converting, you can view the output Excel file.

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More about TXT to Excel converter

See also:

• Merge multiple TXT files into one Excel
• Batch convert TXT files to Excel files

TXT → EXCEL reference

Type mapping

Value kind	in TXT	in EXCEL
Int	1234, or right-aligned in a fixed-width column	1234 (a real numeric cell)
Bigint	9007199254740993	9007199254740993 (exact only while the cell stays text)
Decimal	1234.56	1234.56 (numeric cell, format controls the displayed decimals)
Float	1.234e+10	1.234E+10 (numeric cell)
Text	written as-is; padding depends on the chosen layout	text cell; leading zeros survive only if the column is text
Long text	written as-is	text cell; wraps inside the cell rather than the row
Date	whatever the writer chose	a serial number plus a date cell format
Datetime	whatever the writer chose	a serial number plus a date-time cell format
Binary	not representable	not representable as data
Boolean	Y / N, or 1 / 0, or TRUE / FALSE	TRUE / FALSE (a real boolean cell)
JSON	written as-is	a text cell; the quotes are part of the value

Dialect differences

Both TXT and EXCEL are file formats, so what differs below is how each one chooses to represent a value.

Property	in TXT	in EXCEL
identifiers	None by convention	Not applicable; a cell holds exactly one value
dates	Whatever the writer produced; no convention is guaranteed	Stored as a serial number; only the cell format makes it lo...
binary	Not supported	Only as text or an embedded object, not as a data column
separator	Whatever was chosen - often fixed column widths	Cells, not delimiters
encoding	No declaration - UTF-8 works only with a BOM	UTF-8 internally, declared in the package
typing	None - every field is text	Real cell types: text, number, date, boolean, error
shape	Free form; a parser has to be told the layout	Multiple sheets, each a flat grid
ceiling	No formal limit	1,048,576 rows x 16,384 columns per sheet; 255 sheets per w...

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