
Under ‘Delimiters’ make sure the correct setting is selected that represents how your data is separated. A window will open with a wizard that’ll help you turn the comma-separated values into a properly formatted Excel document. Open the ‘DATA’ tab then click on the ‘Text to Columns’ button. Select the row with the values (or select all the values). They will automatically fill into a single column over multiple rows. The entire table is in cell A3 below, in a single row. However, when it is pasted into Excel directly, it does this. I want it to appear in Excel with the time in a separate column from the description. Paste your comma-separated values into the document. So below what we want to paste into Excel and note the red line which shows the time stamp versus the description. In this example we’ll be using the following list of comm-separated values Sale1,$1.99,3:00pm,12/12/12 This method uses a built in feature of Excel 2013 and does not require creating a temporary CSV file. The final result is a Contact Group directly created from an Excel list.The steps below show how to paste comma-separated values directly into an Excel 2013 file. Provide a name for your Contact Group and save it. Press OK to close the Select Members dialog and to return to your Contact Group. If done correctly, each address will be listed on its own line. Copy the list of addresses into one cell, then go to Data > Text to Columns, and through the wizard choose Delimited and what your delimiter is and follow the wizard through. Instead of selecting your members from your list of contacts, click in the text field next to the “Members” button and press CTRL+V to paste the copied content from Excel. Click on the Add Members dropdown button and choose: From Outlook Contacts…. The keyboard shortcut for this is: CTRL+SHIFT+L In Outlook, create a new Contact Group or Distribution List (the name depends on your version of Outlook). Press CTRL+C to copy the selected cells. In either case, make sure you do not select the row containing the headers. Optionally, you can also select the column containing the names. In Excel, select the addresses from the column containing the email addresses. Copy & Paste straight from Excelįor this method, it is already sufficient if you have a column in Excel with just email address but having an additional column with names can make the list prettier. However, there is a much quicker and direct method as well. One method is to import them as individual contacts first, create a distribution list out of them and then delete the individual contacts again. How can I import them as a new Distribution List instead?
Choose a new location in your workbook to paste the values into.
I know how to import these as individual contacts but I don’t need that. For some tasks, users might have a list of values in Excel that theyd like to use to filter data in Finance and Operations. Copy the data you want to paste as values into your clipboard. I have an Excel document with a list of e-mail address.