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In this tutorial, Mytour will guide you through 3 ways to convert CSV to Excel quickly and efficiently. Additionally, you'll learn how to import multiple CSV files into Excel as well as how to handle situations where some CSV data isn't displayed correctly in Excel spreadsheets.
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Guide to Convert CSV to Excel
1. How to Open CSV Files Directly in Excel
With this method, CSV files opened in Excel will not change file format, meaning your CSV files won't be converted to Excel's .XLS or .XLSX files.
Step 1: Open the Excel application -> go to the File tab -> select Open.
Step 2: The Open interface appears -> select Text Files (*.prn, *.txt, *.CSV) to display the list of CSV files you want to open.
Step 3: You locate the CSV file and then select it to open:
- If the file is in .CSV format, the Excel application will open it immediately and display the data in a new spreadsheet.
- If the CSV file is not in .CSV format, such as a .txt text file, Excel will display the Import Text Wizard interface.
* Some notes:
- When opening a CSV file, Excel application will use the default data format to determine how to accurately import each column of text data.
- If your data contains any of the characters or content below, you should open the CSV file via Import Text Wizard:
+ Different delimiter symbols used in the CSV file.
+ CSV files contain different date formats.
+ You want to retain leading zeros and leading zeros in an Excel spreadsheet.
+ If you want to preview your CSV data before formally importing it into Excel.
+ If you want to customize it according to your own way.
- To open CSV via Import Text Wizard, you need to convert CSV format to TXT, you can use Advanced CSV Converter before opening via Open in Excel.
2. How to Open CSV File in Windows Explorer
This is perhaps the quickest way for you to open a CSV file in Excel. Follow these steps to open CSV in Windows Explorer:
Step 1: Right-click on the .CSV file -> then select Open with -> Choose Excel if you see it in the list. If not, select Choose another app from the options list.
Step 2: Find the Excel application to open. If you don't see it, click More Apps to find the application you want to open. You can check Always use this app to open .csv files for future openings with the same app -> then click OK to complete opening the CSV in Excel.
3. How to Open CSV File in Excel as External Data
Using this third method, you can import data from an external CSV file into the current spreadsheet or a completely new Excel spreadsheet.
Step 1: With a new or existing spreadsheet -> select the cell where you want to import data from CSV or text file.
Step 2: Go to the Data tab -> select Get External -> then choose From Text.
Step 3: You locate the CSV file you want to convert -> then press the Import button (or double-click).
The Import Text Wizard interface appears -> you follow the next small steps below:
- Choose the file type and number of rows for data import. Usually, you select Delimited and Start import at row 1 respectively. Below is a preview window displaying the first items of the CSV file.
- Next, you select Delimiters and Text qualifier. Where Delimiters are the characters separating values in your CSV file.
- You select and confirm the choice is OK with the previewed data -> you click Next to continue
- At Step 3 of 3 -> You choose the columns containing leading zeros and change the column format to Text, this ensures that when converting CSV to Excel, all leading zeros are retained -> Once you're satisfied with the selection, click Finish to complete.
- Finally, you choose the location to import the converted data into -> then click OK to finish importing CSV to Excel.
* Some notes:
- If your CSV file contains numerical or date data, Excel may not convert these values accurately.
- To change the format, select the cell or column you want to modify in Excel -> then right-click and choose Format cells to reformat the data.
Here are 3 ways to Convert CSV to Excel that we want to introduce and guide you through. With these three methods in this article, choose the most suitable one for converting CSV to Excel according to your specific situation.
Additionally, during the database conversion process, if you encounter the issue of CSV files with corrupted Vietnamese characters, refer to the article using Excel to open CSV files with corrupted Vietnamese characters for solutions. Wish you success!
