I have a lot of data in the form of
"00:00:03:19"
(hh:mm:ss:milliseconds)
I can not do much with it since excel is interpreting the data as text. Under "format cells/custom"
I can not find an appropriate entry for the data.... How can I teach/show excel what kind of data I am processing there?
I'm afraid the only option for Excel to read that properly is to somehow replace the last colon : with a decimal point. It's not until Excel understood your data as expected that you can think of the appropriate display format.
How are you receiving this data? If you can have all these values aligned in a single column in a csv file for example, by using a good text editor like Notepad++ you could select all the last : with ALT + mouse, replace them all at once, and finally load that into Excel.
One option is:
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,":",".",3)
select, Copy, Paste Special, Values then Text to Columns with Tab as the delimiter.
I found another solution!
I pasted the timevalues into the A column and split it via the LEFT,MID RIGHT comands
(eg:00:00:01:21 in A3)
A---------------------B-----------------C----------------D---------------E-----------------------F--------
00:00:01:21 -- LEFT(A3;2) -- MID(A3;4;2) -- MID(A3;7;2) -- (RIGHT(A3;2)) -- E3+(D3*1000)+(C3*60000)+(B3*3600000)
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I have a text file that I will upload it. I wanna to select just 2 columns and then plot it with something like excel!
the problem is that when i want to select a column, those things that selected, is not just one column. I try it to open with excel. however it opened but there was same problem again. I'm just wanna select all data of one column and then plot it.
I can not even copy or a paste a certain data. all data will copy instead.
My English is not adequate, I know. Hope to could convey my mean.
Any help will be appreciated.
file
In excel, select the first column which should contain all the columns from your text file.
In the excel menus (or using the search field), select « convert ». Then chose the type « delimiter », and select the delimiter in your excel file. Either a comma, or a tabulation, etc.
Click ok and this should do the trick
I am using Excel for Mac 2016 on macOS Sierra software. Although I have been successfully copying and pasting CSV files into excel for some time now, recently, they have begun to behave in an odd way. When I paste the data, the content of each row seems to split over many columns. Where as before one cell would have been able to contain many words, it seems now as though each cell is only able to contain one word, so it splits the content of what would normally be in one cell, over many cells, making some rows of data spread out over up to 100 columns!
I have tried Data tab>> From text>> which takes me through a Text Wizard. There I choose Delimited>> Choose Delimiters: Untick the 'Space' box ('Tab' box is still ticked)>> Column data as 'General'>> Finish. Following this process appears to import the data into its correct columns. It works. BUT, a lot of work to get there!
Question: Is there any way to change the default settings of Delimiters, so that the 'Space' delimiter does not automatically divide the data?
I found an answer! It has to do with the "Text to Columns" function:
The way fix this behavior is:
Select a non-empty cell
Do Data -> Text to Columns
Make sure to choose Delimited
Click Next >
Enable the Tab delimiter, disable all the others
Clear Treat consecutive delimiters as one
Click Cancel
Now try pasting your data again
I did the opposite regarding "consecutive delimiters"!
I put a tick in the box next to "Treat consecutive delimiters as one", and THEN it worked.
Choose delimiter directly in CSV file to open in Excel
For Excel to be able to read a CSV file with a field separator used in a given CSV file, you can specify the separator directly in that file. For this, open your file in any text editor, say Notepad, and type the below string before any other data:
To separate values with comma: sep=,
To separate values with semicolon: sep=;
To separate values with a pipe: sep=|
In a similar fashion, you can use any other character for the delimiter - just type the character after the equality sign.
For example, to correctly open a semicolon delimited CSV in Excel, we explicitly indicate that the field separator is a semicolon:
reference
I want to export a huge excel file as a .csv, but the data contains commas within the cells.
How do I export the excel data to a .csv with the deliminator as this |
I've tried doing the usual "save as", but it is not working for my data.
Hi Check out this method in the below link, its what I have used in the past
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/21456/export-or-save-excel-files-with-pipe-or-other-delimiters-instead-of-commas/
Summary:
Control Panel –> Region and Language, and then click the Additional settings
When in the additional settings find “List separator”
Change this to anything you want, in your case you would want the | pipe
By definition CSV stands for Comma Delimited.
Easy alternatives that were under your nose in the Save As window are:
"Formatted Text(Space Delimited)" though this won't be appropriate if you have spaces in your cells
"Text(Tab Delimited)" it is less likely you'll have tabs in your cells and people won't type those in to excel.
If you really want the 'pipe' | then I would suggest saving as tab delimited and running some kind of find & replace on the resulting text file. This is a bit of a workaround
A even bigger workaround is to concatenate the cells using a formula on the sheet with a | involved and the save as text only that column.
Hi all i have been conducting research using JNNS creating neural networks.
I have collected my results inside a result file and wish to create graphs with them to clearly present my findings in a report.
My issue is when pasting the result file contents (expected outputs and then actual outputs) into excel the whole set of results goes into the A1 column instead of spreading across multiple rows
Does anyone know how i would go about fixing this issue?
Example to aid question:
1.1 Expected result / actual result
0, 0, 1, 0
0.02501, 0.00013, 0.99952, 0
and pasting this into excel does this:
https://gyazo.com/38c089ebcfaca7b85d31caacd3e950f9
instead of this:
https://gyazo.com/22f1527df18e811871e53402cea4ab2f
Thanks
I am guessing your data is in a CSV format, do you have notepad++?
if you do open it there and click on the show all characters, i wanna know what do you have at the end of your lines CR or LF...
Thanks to OmarQA for the help, i needed to paste my data into a text file, replace all spaces with commas using the replace tool, then import data from text on excel and use comma as data separation and it solved the issue!
Thanks
It might be that excel's not recognizing the proper delimiter when you're pasting you data. On Excel, select the cell with the entire text (in your picture, cell A1) and go to the Data tab. Look for a button called "Convert text to columns" or something like that. It will open a new window asking you for parameters (delimiters, if comma is a decimal separator, etc) and it gives you a preview of how your data is going to look like with that setting. Just mess around a little bit and you should get your data good to go. Looking at your picture, it might be possible that you didn't select "tab" as a delimiter.
Is this at all possible?
If I open up my file in standard text editor e.g. notepad the preceeding zeros are displayed.
e.g. 000485001 shows up.
Although this doesn't happen in excel. All that's displayed is 485001
Just wondering if there's a way around this?
Thanks,
Yes, when you're importing (or using 'Text to columns') you can explicitly indicate the data type for a column (instead of General). If you select 'Text' the zeros will not be dropped.
Unfortunately you only see the dialog to specify this option when Excel is already open and you use either File/Open or Data/Text to Columns. If you just double click a .csv in the explorer you don't get this choice.
Excel tries very hard to determine the type of value it's importing. If it looks like a number, it will treat it like a number, and drop all the leading zeros as it reads it in. There's no way to get them back once they're lost.
You might try to import the file using the wizard that lets you set the data type for each column.
Rather than writing your data as a CSV file, use the SYLK (Symbolic Link) format instead. This format includes information about the style of a column, so that Excel will not try to auto-guess the type of data.
The easiest way to get started with this format is to export a small file from Excel and use that as a template.
Ok got around this by inserting a text character before the number i.e. #000485001
Simple enough!