Once the Text Import dialog box opens, by default, it interprets tabs, commas, and semicolons as column delimiters, and newlines as row delimiters.
From the File menu, select Open and select your tab-delimited text file.
Its spreadsheet application is LibreOffice Calc.įollow these steps to open a tab-delimited text file in LibreOffice Calc, view it as a spreadsheet, and save it as a CSV file. LibreOffice is a free, open-source office productivity software suite that runs on many operating systems, including Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS. It can be opened in a spreadsheet application or in any text editor. The file is saved as a CSV file, a text file that uses commas as delimiters.
Type a name for the CSV file in the File name field, navigate to where you want to save the file, then click the Save button.
In the Save As window, select the CSV (Comma delimited) (*.csv) option in the Save as type drop-down menu.
Again, click the File tab in the Ribbon menu and select the Save As option.
The text file data is converted to spreadsheet format.
If you don't need to format each column of data, click the Finish button.
To format each column of data, like text, date, or numeric, click the Next button and select the format type for each column of data.
Make sure the Tab option is checked and validate the data is separated correctly in the Data preview section.
If the text file has a header row ( row that identifies the name of each column of data), click the check box for My data has headers.
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