Also known as a Comma Separated Value file, a comma delimited file is a standard file type that a number of different data-manipulation programs can read and understand, including Microsoft Excel.

This is the demonstration file to accompany the article, How to quickly extract delimited data using Microsoft Excel Power Query by Susan Harkins.

How to Copy Delimited Text to Excel. If you have data in delimited text files from other programs that you need to get into an Excel workbook, you can use the import wizard to import delimited ...

Sometimes it's necessary to split cells in a spreadsheet, and Microsoft Excel makes it easy enough to do.

Learn how to parse data in Microsoft Excel easily using our step-by-step guide.

cut and awk both do a great job of slicing and dicing tab-delimited data. Just make sure your data uses unix-style newlines (/n). If it uses windows style (/r/n), use dos2unix to convert first.