Import data from external sources Excel offers a robust set of tools to import data from various external sources, making it a versatile, lightweight database solution.

When you import a spreadsheet into an OpenOffice.org database, you lose any text styling, number formatting, macro scripts or charts that you previously used to enhance the data.

While Access 2003 and 2002 include a wizard for importing data from an Excel file into an Access table, you may want to create a command button that will perform all of the steps of the wizard for ...

Click on the "Browse" button and use the "File Open" dialog box to locate the first Excel file you want to import. Click on the "Open" button to return to the "Get External Data" dialog box.

Part Two of this three-part article covers how to import your Outlook contact list—the CSV file—into Excel, then how to refine, maintain, and manage that database so, in Part Three, you can ...

Importing data into Excel from other sources can result in long, messy strings of text you need to parse. We'll show you how.