Importing text files in an MS Excel spreadsheet Wim Buysse – ICRAF-ILRI Research Methods Group August 2004 Research Methods Group
Importing text files in an MS Excel spreadsheet Wim Buysse – ICRAF-ILRI Research Methods Group August 2004 Research Methods Group.
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Importing text files
in an MS Excel spreadsheet
Wim Buysse – ICRAF-ILRI Research Methods GroupAugust 2004
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Importing text files: example
• GPS
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Importing text files: example• Data loggers, example weather station
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Importing text files: example• Data loggers, example light intensity meter
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Importing text files: example• Data loggers, example CO2 and
temperature meter
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Importing text files: example• Data loggers, example soil moisture logger
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Importing text files: example• Data loggers, example rain gauge
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Importing text files: example• Data loggers, example ICP mass
spectrometer
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Importing text files: example• Data loggers, example harvesters
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Avoid entering manually• Reading data from device and next typing in
spreadsheet = increasing chance of typing errors
• Reading data from device on the field, writing on a piece of paper, travelling all the way back to the office and typing in spreadsheet (often some days later) = almost impossible not to make some mistake
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Avoid entering manually• RULE = use cables and software to transfer data
from device to computer
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• example = logging data from GPS onto a laptop
Avoid entering manually
• Example of software (for logging GPS data)
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Text data files
• Result of logged data is quite often in ASCII text format
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Importing in MS Excel 2000
• File => Open gives you the “Text Import Wizard”
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Importing in MS Excel 2000• In this example, fields to import are separated by
commas. They are “delimited”
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Importing in MS Excel 2000• Choose the comma as delimiter in the second
screen
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Importing in MS Excel 2000• More options in the third screen
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Importing in MS Excel 2000• The data are imported in cells of an Excel spreadsheet.
Not a single typing error has been made!
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Some functions
• CONCATENATE() for merging text from several cells
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Some functions
• LEFT(); RIGHT() or MID() to extract a fixed number of characters from a specific position
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Some functions
• Result of
=RIGHT(B2, 3)
Is still text• Using the VALUE
function turns it
into figures
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Some functions
• It is possible to superpose a function on a function
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